NATURE : MYSTERY HUMANS SPICED UP ANCIENTS SEX LIVES
"All modern humans whose ancestry originates outside of Africa owe about 2% of their genome to Neanderthals. Certain populations living in Oceania, such as Papua New Guineans and Australian Aboriginals, share about 4% of their DNA with Denisovans, members of a group named after a cave in the Altai Mountains in Siberia, Russia, where they were discovered. The cave contains remains deposited between 30,000 and 50,000 years ago."
WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT THERE IS SCIENTIFIC PROOF THAT THERE WERE DIFFERENT BREEDS (my word) OF HUMAN ANCESTORS LIVING AT THE SAME TIME AND THAT THEY INTERBRED.
I'm thinking of my dog when I use this word. I think it may be useful to image, since we all know that sometimes a maltese and a poodle, and other dogs that are not similar in look or size, do breed, or are bred. In this case, some lonely Neanderthals found the Denisovans all right!
So if you think you have an uncle who is more than 4% Neanderthal...
