A new study presented to the Royal Society meeting on ancient DNA in London last week has revealed a dramatic finding – the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the Denisovans, contains a segment of DNA that seems to have come from another species that is currently unknown to science. The discovery suggests that there was rampant interbreeding between ancient human species in Europe and Asia more than 30,000 years ago. But, far more significant was the finding that they also mated with a mystery species from Asia – one that is neither human nor Neanderthal.
Scientists launched into a flurry of discussion and debate upon hearing the study results and immediately began speculating about what this unknown species could be. Some have suggested that a group may have branched off to Asia from the Homo heidelbernensis, who resided in Africa about half a million years ago. They are believed to be the ancestors of Europe's Neanderthals.
However others, such as Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the London Natural History Museum, admitted that they “don’t have the faintest idea” what the mystery species could be.
Traces of the unknown new genome were detected in two teeth and a finger bone of a Denisovan, which was discovered in a Siberian cave. There is not much data available about the appearance of Denisovans due to lack of their fossils' availability, but the geneticists and researchers succeeded in arranging their entire genome very precisely.
"What it begins to suggest is that we're looking at a 'Lord of the Rings'-type world - that there were many hominid populations," Mark Thomas, an evolutionary geneticist at University College London.
The question is now: who were these mystery people that the Denisovans were breeding with?
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Non-human DNA in Densovan Tooth
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Okay, it is now my turn. For all the people who claim there is no evidence of "grays", please read, "Secret Journey to Planet Serpo", A True Story of Interplanetary Travel, by Len Kasten. Be sure to use your open mind (not the one you use for everything else) while reading. After that, read all of Zechariah Sitchn's books regarding ancient humans and their origins. The piano joke is a joke. If one drops a piano down a mine shaft (and there is a miner standing down below), you will have "A flat" (musical reference) minor (liberty taken to hope you will get the joke) is a reference to someone standing below who is an employee of a mining corporation (or self-employed, or simply an explorer of some sort) called a miner. The joke is a play on words - minor/miner, A (musical note) flat (chord) minor (miner). Whew!
RHneg blood
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Rh neg blood cannot be cloned, or duplicated. Yes, it is rare but not the most rare. However it is the largest grouping of rare blood. all neg blood types are rare. If you have the rh factor you are from this planet. If you do not have the rh factor you have blood from someplace else. Is this what you are saying?
Also rh neg is the universal donor. However an rh neg person can only receive rh neg blood and there are no copies.
Ancient DNA
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It vindicates my stand that we did not overnite become humans but due to confluence of Alien DNA with our ancestors to become human beings.........some call then Aliens and some call them GODS
there's a chapter in the
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there's a chapter in the genesis,it says when God kick Cain out after he kill his brother,he said to God that what if someone from another land see him and kill him and God give him blood mark on his forehead,so he wouldn't be kill outside his land,does that mean,that Adam and Eve is not the first human being...maybe is the first human being created in God's image..
If Denisovans have a DNA
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If Denisovans have a DNA sequence that comes from some unknown species, then, how can science claim that it knows where or how humans came from? Incomplete knowledge is still incomplete knowledge.
In any event, claims of ET or alien interbreeding can not be excluded. The recent work by Dr. John Brandenburg that demonstrates that an ancient civilization on Mars was destroyed by a thermonuclear blast over 180 million years ago make interbreeding a possibility.
Dr. Brandenburg has studied the isotopes distribution on the surface of Mars as given by various instrument sent to Mars and found excessive radioactive isotopes that could only have resulted from an artificially created blast. This blast requires weapons grade material. It can not happen naturally.
Furthermore, he has identified similarities between the ancient Mars civilization and civilizations on Earth in Egypt and Mexico. This could not happen without direct contact between Earth and Mars.
So, this similarity indicates a real possibility of ET contact between intelligent life on Mars and on Earth.
We discuss both Dr. Brandenburg's research and our own that indicate an extremely ancient date for intelligent life on Earth, at least to the time of the dinosaurs if not very much older.
See my Mr black2tell blog for more on these issues. Mr. Black