https://finance.yahoo.com/news/2-hikers ... 46154.html
Comment: I'm not sure I believe this story. I'm pretty sure the guy pictured attended my wedding up in Issan 20 years ago...
New Human Ancestor Discovered
New Human Ancestor Discovered
"2 climbers crawled through a suffocatingly tiny cave and discovered a new human ancestor that could be 'one of the greatest fossil discoveries of the past half century'"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/2-hikers ... 46154.html
Comment: I'm not sure I believe this story. I'm pretty sure the guy pictured attended my wedding up in Issan 20 years ago...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/2-hikers ... 46154.html
Comment: I'm not sure I believe this story. I'm pretty sure the guy pictured attended my wedding up in Issan 20 years ago...
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
Re: New Human Ancestor Discovered
I new that Mekong was no good!
Re: New Human Ancestor Discovered
Another new discovery... this one in China:
"Bone discovery suggests a mysterious ancient species of human lived alongside our ancestors"
"... “The riddle of the Red Deer Cave people gets even more challenging now: Just who were these mysterious stone age people? Why did they survive so late? And why only in tropical southwest China?,” said Curnoe.
But the discovery wouldn’t be the first time scientists discovered the complexities of humans’ evolutionary roots. Earlier this year, researchers discovered 15 skeletons belonging to a new species of ancient human in South Africa. The homo sapiens evolutionary tree is starting to get crowded."
http://qz.com/585000/bone-discovery-sug ... source=YPL
"Bone discovery suggests a mysterious ancient species of human lived alongside our ancestors"
"... “The riddle of the Red Deer Cave people gets even more challenging now: Just who were these mysterious stone age people? Why did they survive so late? And why only in tropical southwest China?,” said Curnoe.
But the discovery wouldn’t be the first time scientists discovered the complexities of humans’ evolutionary roots. Earlier this year, researchers discovered 15 skeletons belonging to a new species of ancient human in South Africa. The homo sapiens evolutionary tree is starting to get crowded."
http://qz.com/585000/bone-discovery-sug ... source=YPL
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
Re: New Human Ancestor Discovered
I guess we humans will "boink" anything.
This one in Siberia...
"Humans Were Likely Boinking Neanderthals Earlier Than We Thought
Scientists have new evidence that our species and Neanderthals were doing the prehistoric tango as far back as 100,000 years ago.
What's a Neanderthal exactly, and why does Stone Age sex matter? Here's some background: The scientific name for modern humans walking the Earth today is Homo sapiens sapiens. Most scientists today describe Neanderthals, which are extinct, as Homo neanderthalensis -- a species distinct from modern humans -- though some scientists still hold that Neanderthals were a subspecies of Homo sapiens. They looked pretty similar to modern humans, but were stockier, with more prominent, sloping brows and wide noses.
Neanderthals are also our closest evolutionary relative, and scientists know that at some point tens of thousands of years ago, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens mated to some degree.
Previously, scientists had evidence the interbreeding was going on around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, but an international research team has established “strong evidence” that Neanderthals and modern humans were mating 100,000 years ago, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
From Reuters:
Scientists said on Wednesday an analysis of the genome of a Neanderthal woman whose remains were found in a cave in the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia near the Russia-Mongolia border detected residual DNA from Homo sapiens, a sign of inter-species mating.
One reason this is significant is because it indicates that at least some modern humans were journeying out of Africa earlier than many scientists thought.
"It's been known for several years, following the first sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2010, that Neanderthals and humans must have interbred," Professor Adam Siepel, a co-leader of the research and a quantitative biologist at New York’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, said in a news release. "But the data so far refers to an event dating to around 47,000-65,000 years ago, around the time that human populations emigrated from Africa. The event we found appears considerably older than that event.”
Professor Chris Stringer, the head of human origins at London’s Natural History Museum, who was not involved in the study, told the BBC that researchers aren’t sure of the circumstances surrounding this early sexual contact.
“At the moment we simply don't know how these matings happened, and the possibilities range from relatively peaceful exchanges of partners, to one group raiding another and stealing females … to adopting abandoned or orphaned babies,” Stringer said.
And before you go and think early Homo sapiens would be too good to consensually sleep with lowly Neanderthals, know that Neanderthals’ reputation for being lumbering dolts is undeserved, according to recent research."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nea ... 0245c6dede?
This one in Siberia...
"Humans Were Likely Boinking Neanderthals Earlier Than We Thought
Scientists have new evidence that our species and Neanderthals were doing the prehistoric tango as far back as 100,000 years ago.
What's a Neanderthal exactly, and why does Stone Age sex matter? Here's some background: The scientific name for modern humans walking the Earth today is Homo sapiens sapiens. Most scientists today describe Neanderthals, which are extinct, as Homo neanderthalensis -- a species distinct from modern humans -- though some scientists still hold that Neanderthals were a subspecies of Homo sapiens. They looked pretty similar to modern humans, but were stockier, with more prominent, sloping brows and wide noses.
Neanderthals are also our closest evolutionary relative, and scientists know that at some point tens of thousands of years ago, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens mated to some degree.
Previously, scientists had evidence the interbreeding was going on around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, but an international research team has established “strong evidence” that Neanderthals and modern humans were mating 100,000 years ago, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
From Reuters:
Scientists said on Wednesday an analysis of the genome of a Neanderthal woman whose remains were found in a cave in the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia near the Russia-Mongolia border detected residual DNA from Homo sapiens, a sign of inter-species mating.
One reason this is significant is because it indicates that at least some modern humans were journeying out of Africa earlier than many scientists thought.
"It's been known for several years, following the first sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2010, that Neanderthals and humans must have interbred," Professor Adam Siepel, a co-leader of the research and a quantitative biologist at New York’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, said in a news release. "But the data so far refers to an event dating to around 47,000-65,000 years ago, around the time that human populations emigrated from Africa. The event we found appears considerably older than that event.”
Professor Chris Stringer, the head of human origins at London’s Natural History Museum, who was not involved in the study, told the BBC that researchers aren’t sure of the circumstances surrounding this early sexual contact.
“At the moment we simply don't know how these matings happened, and the possibilities range from relatively peaceful exchanges of partners, to one group raiding another and stealing females … to adopting abandoned or orphaned babies,” Stringer said.
And before you go and think early Homo sapiens would be too good to consensually sleep with lowly Neanderthals, know that Neanderthals’ reputation for being lumbering dolts is undeserved, according to recent research."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nea ... 0245c6dede?
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?