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[yagathai]

I'm watching a fascinating documentary on Denisovan man. They found trace amounts of Denisovan DNA in certain isolated modern human populations, which is evidence of paleolithic interspecies breeding. I mean most non-African human populations have a good amount of Neanderthal DNA (that's right -- almost everyone reading this is not pure Homo sapiens, but a hybrid), but humans breeding with a third non-Homo sapiens population? That is some amazing shit right there.

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[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Yep. I've been trying to get a story going about this for awhile. Fascinating stuff. The interbreeding isn't even the gnarliest result of this research -- it will likely overturn the main theory of the history of human evolution and migration.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

Does it? I thought that it confirmed the southeast asian / Australian diaspora theory, at least as far as homo sapiens goes. I mean, nobody knows where Denisovan man came from, so that's a giant mystery, or why the only evidence of interbreeding appeared in the extreme southeast even though Denisovan DNA was found in Siberia, but what theory does it overturn? That's even more exciting!