Showing posts with label Siberia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Siberia. Show all posts

07 January 2016

EUROPEAN DNA - THREE DISTINCT TRIBES MIXED including THE NORTHERN EURASIANS

BBC-SCIENCE - EUROPEANS DRAWN FROM THREE ANCIENT TRIBES by Paul Rincon

EXCERPT:

Blue-eyed, swarthy hunters mingled with brown-eyed, pale skinned farmers as the latter swept into Europe from the Near East.

But another, mysterious population with Siberian affinities also contributed to the genetic landscape of the continent.

The findings are based on analysis of genomes from nine ancient Europeans.
Agriculture originated in the Near East - in modern Syria, Iraq and Israel - before expanding into Europe around 7,500 years ago.
Multiple lines of evidence suggested this new way of life was spread by a wave of migrants, who interbred with the indigenous European hunter-gatherers they encountered on the way.
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When the researchers looked at DNA from 2,345 present day people, they found that a third population was needed to capture the genetic complexity of modern Europeans.

This additional "tribe" is the most enigmatic and, surprisingly, is related to Native Americans.
Hints of this group surfaced in an analysis of European genomes two years ago. Dubbed Ancient North Eurasians, this group remained a "ghost population" until 2013, when scientists published the genome of a 24,000-year-old boy buried near Lake Baikal in Siberia.

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28 January 2014

WE (ALMOST) ALL GOT HERE ONE WAY: ANCIENT HUMANS MATED WITH OTHER BREEDS OF HUMANS

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...