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As reported by the news arm of the journal Nature, new genetic evidence suggests that several hominids human relatives closer than humans' current living cousin, the chimpanzee interbred more than 30,000 years ago. This group of kissing cousins included an unknown human ancestor not yet revealed by the ancient DNA record.
"It's implied it could be something like Homo erectus or similar," said Carles Lalueza-Fox, a paleogenomics researcher at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain, who was not involved in the research, but who was present at a talk on the findings given by lead author David Reich of Harvard Medical School at a meeting on ancient DNA sponsored by the Royal Society in London on Nov. 18. Homo erectus is an extinct species of human that originated in Africa and spread into Asia.
Read more: http://www.livescience.com/41610-ancient-human-sex.html
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,640 posts)We'll fuck anything!
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)He said "erectus" -- heh heh heh....
cloudbase
(5,520 posts)Also done by Asleep at the Wheel, and probably a few others.
Initech
(100,081 posts)HEHEHEHEHEHEHE...
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Warpy
(111,277 posts)if they weren't afraid of getting laughed at.
safeinOhio
(32,689 posts)internet porn.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)Yeah, I was just thinking the same!
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)....what?
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)............. Republicans.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)Who knew ancient humans were so slutty?
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts)What idiots like that don't seem to get is that the wider and more diverse the gene pool, the stronger our species becomes!
happyfunball
(80 posts)It has taught us this:
There's nothing people wont have sex with.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Chiyo-chichi
(3,581 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Here comes the alien guy.
Thank you. It's amazing the number of contexts he fits into.
Even this one...
Oopsie! Wrong photoshop. No matter. You get the idea. It's all aliens these days.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)GMTA!
Chiyo-chichi
(3,581 posts)So, let's get it out of the way.
hunter
(38,317 posts)'tis okay, the "I'm not saying it was aliens..." image, from another site, was posted just above yours.
ConcernedCanuk
(13,509 posts).
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They are called your SO . . .
CC
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Fundy heads exploding.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)WolverineDG
(22,298 posts)Anyone watching the BSG finale could have told them that....
rug
(82,333 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)loli phabay
(5,580 posts)0rganism
(23,957 posts)it's one of our species' many distinctions.
rug
(82,333 posts)That's the first step. But it doesn't explain the pumpkin.
rug
(82,333 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)Matariki
(18,775 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)And beat me to it too,
IDemo
(16,926 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Believer's%20Corner/Doctrines/giants.htm
Did Fallen Angels Have Sex with Earthly Women?
"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose [Gen. 6:12].
This matter of "the sons of God" and "the daughters of men" is something that has caused no end of discussion. There are a great many good men who take the position that "the sons of God" were angels. I personally cannot accept that at all. Most of my teachers taught that the sons of God were angels, and I recognize that a great many of the present-day expositors take that position. However, I cannot accept that view, because, if these were good angels, they would not commit this sin, and evil angels could never be designated as "sons of God." Also, the offspring here were men; they were not monstrosities. I do not know why it is assumed by so many that the offspring were giants. We will look at this more closely when we come to verse 4.
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years [Gen. 6:3].
Thanks for the thread, FarCenter.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Kaleva
(36,312 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)but we cannot mate with other species, only our own. The only mystery is the unknown details yet to be discovered.
If it is one of our many ancestors, it is our species, by definition. Bad science writing.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)I hate to seem like pissing on anyone's parades, but lots of theories come out about us humans and our lineage every year.....very few of them ever get proven, or even a second look for that matter. Maybe something will come out of it, maybe it won't.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)taught_me_patience
(5,477 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)and the low level of Neandertal contribution to the genome of non-African H. sapiens (for instance) indicates that such mating events may be fairly isolated things that need only have occurred a single time for any advantageous genes passed on through the offspring of that isolated mating to propagate to most of the rest of humanity...and to have done so relatively quickly; the most-recent common ancestor point for most of humanity (outside of geographically isolated populations in Oceania, North America, and sub-Saharan Africa, is probably as recent as 2000 years or so).
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Modern H. sapiens probably left Africa about 70K years ago. They reached Australia by about 50 K years ago, and Indian tribals, Andaman islanders, Papuans, etc. are remnants of that first expansion across South Asia.
However, most Eurasians are the result of expansions out of refuges after the last glacial maximum about 20K years ago. This includes North and South Americans who migrated from Siberia.
The initial expansions were more recently replaced by Neolithic farmers who began expanding about 10K years ago from the centers of wheat and rice agriculture to cover most of Europe and East Asia.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Although there's also the possibility of continued migration and gene flow across the Bering Strait. Note "geographically isolated populations such as sub-Saharan/Australian" excluded; the most recent common ancestor of all Europeans probably lived c. 1200 years ago, or less, for a point of comparison.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)rucky
(35,211 posts)Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)" A stiff prick has no conscious." I do believe that is true.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Obviously -- for them to be fruitful and to multiply -- they had to get it on with someone from another planet. They were the only two people on the planet, other than their parents. Thus, they must have gotten it on with Aliens. Case solved. There you have it....
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)So either Adam and Eve had daughters and it was incest from the get go or there were other people around.
And that's not even counting the cloning aspect of Eve.
Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)after Cain was cast out of the Garden of Eden, god put a mark upon his body so that the others that he came across would know him for who he was and wouldn't harm/kill him.
This is the exact issue which caused me to leave church when I was 16, turning me agnostic, then full blown atheist. I asked the preacher a very simple question, to which the answer is in my title to this post, at least in my mind....
What was the question I asked?? :" The bible says that after Cain was cast out of the Garden of Eden, god put a mark upon his body so that the others that he came across would know him for who he was and wouldn't harm/kill him, right? *Where* did these other people come from?" All the preacher had to say was "the bible says Adam & Eve were the *FIRST*, not the *ONLY*". Instead, he just stood there looking at me dumbfoundedly, as if I was speaking a foreign language or something. How could a man who had been a preacher for 30+ years, had gone to bible college, the seminary, etc., not come up with such a simple answer for a 16 year old kid??
I left that day, and never went back though, due to my thirst for knowledge, I kept reading the bible, studying other religions from satanism to wicca, odinism, paganism and buddhism. I came to the conclusion that it was all a load of BS, and I had the "free will" to live my life knowing right from wrong, and mostly trying to help out those less fortunate than myself... but without expecting any kind of reward at the end, like living in some imaginary mansion in the sky, or being tortured for beyond eternity for some of the other things I've done in my lifetime.
Peace,
Ghost
Saphire
(2,437 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)mithnanthy
(1,725 posts)That homo sapiens are the product of aliens mating with Chimpanzees, thus, creating man? Chimpanzees continued to mate with their own species and Neanderthals mated with each other to continue their own line. The theory would be, that aliens arrived on Earth, mated with everything that moved (sounds like man) and yet only the Chimpanzee breeding was a success and Man was born....(I thought of this idea, when I learned about DNA back in 1964, being just a crazy kid who had viewed lots of fantasy and outer space movies). My Theory, back then was called "The Monkey-Alien Theory" (even tho I learned the Chimps were closer to our DNA). This Theory can be great topic of conversation at any gathering!
Skraxx
(2,977 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)0rganism
(23,957 posts)we're humans, apparently it's what we do.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Very interesting and has some scientific evidence about the existence of mermaids that I did not know about!
http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/mermaids/videos/camera-captures-mermaid-on-diving-vessel.htm