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AI Study of Human Genome Finds Unknown Human Ancestor (smithsonianmag.com)
Zorro shares a report from the Smithsonian: A recent study used machine learning technology to analyze eight leading models of human origins and evolution, and the program identified evidence in the human genome of a "ghost population" of human ancestors. The analysis suggests that a previously unknown and long-extinct group of hominins interbred with Homo sapiens in Asia and Oceania somewhere along the long, winding road of human evolutionary history, leaving behind only fragmented traces in modern human DNA. The study, published in Nature Communications, is one of the first examples of how machine learning can help reveal clues to our own origins. By poring through vast amounts of genomic data left behind in fossilized bones and comparing it with DNA in modern humans, scientists can begin to fill in some of the many gaps of our species' evolutionary history. "The new data suggest that the mysterious hominin was likely descended from an admixture of Neanderthals and Denisovans (who were only identified as a unique species on the human family tree in 2010)," the report adds. "Such a species in our evolutionary past would look a lot like the fossil of a 90,000-year-old teenage girl from Siberia's Denisova cave. Her remains were described last summer as the only known example of a first-generation hybrid between the two species, with a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father."
uuge?
Jeez I know my dad sowed some wild oats but this is taking it too far.
Oh wait I thought this was a left wing intersectional blog. Hard to tell anymore.
When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created. When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
or did they work backwards and apply algorithm 'filters' using the known existing fossil? Yup, I'm one of those AI isn't really AI crowd.
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Homo sapiens are the dumbest, stinkiest losers to have ever walked the earth.
isn't it
it's like a coelacanth
a living fossil
I just had a creepy thought. Ceolecanths throwing themselves at you in the dark
Sub-species. The biological definition of species is the ability to form fertile offspring. For example all dogs and wolves are the same species as they can all form fertile offspring. Horses and donkeys are a different species as the result is the mule, which is sterile. Talking about different human "species" interbreeding is wrong.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
The more you shake the family tree the more indiscretions fall out and the less pure bred the master race becomes.
i thought the fuckers glowed in the dark
what the hell are all these glowing fishes then
Is it your mom?
ALIENS. *FINALLY* someone is fessing up to it. Ob. link.
And an AI found it. You realize it takes one to know one, right?
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
Oh they are the first wave. Unless you know the right codes you have to kill them all before you fight the boss
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So say we all.
...stupider than the white and yellow ones.
It all makes sense now.
The original strain came from Africa and migrated north and east.
They came in contact with Denisovans, Neanderthals and maybe another unknown one, and interbred.
The resulting hybrids were smarter, but didn't move south or west much.
Thus the blacks were concentrated in Africa where they archived pretty well nothing, and the smarter European and North East Asians went on to develop world spanning civilisations.
The Australian Aboriginals and Arabs, Indians, South EAst Asians etc were more closely related to the original strain and thus weren't all that bright either, not until some whites or NE Asians bought some of their genes into their pools eventually.
So, show me where that hypothesis falls down.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's racist.
For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.
Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
It has blood on it!
ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
"Every place I go there's always something to remind of of another place and time...."
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
People will fuck anything.
"generation hybrid between the two species, with a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father."
Since the two groups could mate and produce successful offspring, are they two species or two races?
Humans roamed, that is a fact. We are the most heavily adapted for roaming species on the on the planet. The single diaspora theory ignores this fact. Another fact seems to be that paleontologists are bad at math. They don't seem to be able comprehend numbers like 2^10,000 which would be the human population if all breeding lineages had a descendant living today. The fact is human packs wandered away from each other and then re-connected over and over with most of their lineages completely dying out. This seems to have usually occurred by the 7th generation.
The point is that the genetic ties from today's population to its origins is inevitably tenuous. Just because there is a scientifically verifiable thread from today's population to a population that very likely originated in Africa absolutely can not be construed as evidence for the behavior of the 99.999995% of the people whose genes did not make it to today's population. We know that only 0.000005% of lineages on average propagated. The thread winds its way through history to us. But we survivors are a mathematically insignificant population. To assert that the path that led to us describes the behavior of the whole of humanity for all history is folly. By 250,000 years ago all the "good" parts of the planet that could be walked to by humans probably had been ... many times over. Almost always however, everyone died.
What bad-at-math paleontologists are finally having to acknowledge is that there were some intermediary populations that segmented but survived long enough to remix with the more dominant thread that comprises the majority of everyone living's genes. It was a very messy business with probabilities so poor you can't even run a simulation because it keeps terminating before the required timeframes are accounted for. But you can recognize the general statistics involved and they certainly do not support a single diaspora.
"So, show me where that hypothesis falls down."
South America.
Only complete imbecile with a Down syndrome would interbreed with a shitty smelly hindu-chimp or sand monkey.
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Thus the blacks were concentrated in Africa where they archived pretty well nothing, and the smarter European and North East Asians went on to develop world spanning civilisations.
Africa is a much easier place to survive without good planning and cooperation between different groups.
The commentator above is correct; scientists define a group as a separate species only if it can't interbreed with other closely related groups.
Leave it to the lawyers to muddy the waters. The misnamed Endangered Species Act apparently defined a species as any separate breeding population (the Florida panthers, for example) in order to "extend the reach" of the law well beyond merely protecting endangered species. This is the usual example of lawyers and legislators using the law to try to redefine words for public relations purposes. The result is that the public- and the lawyers- now don't know what a species is. This is the left wing version of the unborn child gambit on the right.
Personally, I think Neanderthal girls are hot. I keep hoping to meet one at the beach. They're really good at beach volleyball. Do Neanderthals girls qualify for NCAA athletic scholarships?
As in subject.
Unfortunately for your idea, it's become apparent over the last 30 (well 120 really) or so years that civilization (part 1 of 3 btw) began in Indonesia at least 20000 ybp and they spread out after the younger dryas impact and kept the momentum going.
Whether you analyse the stories of Java, aboriginal, Mayan, Incan, Vedic, Egyptian, Persian, Pacific Island or even freaking Plato (yes, good old whitey Plato), they *all* point to a seafaring, city building, monolith lifting civilization based in SE Asia as the kickstart for modern civilization. Oh, yes, at a depth of around 125m, from western India to Japan, we find a number of submerged stone age cities. fact.
Hell, we've already carbon dated the DNA in the cement core samples taken from Gunang Padang, and the 20 000 year date is trying to be conservative.
This genetic find seems to correlate with the final remaining data point that older archo/paleo guys refuse to budge on. Although tbe 1144 suspected pyramids in China will hopefully yield even more data over the coming centuries, just to put a nail in the "civilization started in near middl east 6000 ybp, just as it says in the bible" bollocks that has underpinned our history classes for centuries.
Oh, I forgot....the skn color of those peoples at the time was....black.
Sorry to burst the old testament bubble and weird skin-color based outlook.
Has Hank Ketcham been asked for his insight in this matter?
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The quotes at the end of the summary do not represent the actual research paper. The summary represents the words of Smithsonianmag.com as those of the report and Smithsonianmag.com is wrong. This is incredibly sloppy. Well if it wasn't Slashdot that seems to have employed some creatures not found in the homo genus.
Has to be Cylons.