Hehe, neither do I, but for sheer outrageousness factor this story stands on its own as an immortal meme. as a kind of anti-creation myth that strips our species of any noble origin - such as say crafted in the image of God almighty or interbred with star people in little flying saucers inseminating apes. this is the antidote of all these other stories
Asserting instead how we are hairless pig-apes; and come to think of it we rather do behave like pigs. so maybe there is something to it ;) From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 5:47 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: HUMANS all come FROM AFRICA: HERPES does not lie That's the one. I don't know if it's true, or if someone's been telling porkies. On 23 October 2013 13:43, Chris de Morsella <cdemorse...@yahoo.com> wrote: Are you referring to the hypothesis that human's are the result of a radical back hybridization from an ape-pig hybrid. Not a very self-ennobling creation story LOL. From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 4:36 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: HUMANS all come FROM AFRICA: HERPES does not lie Where do pigs come in? :) On 23 October 2013 12:24, Chris de Morsella <cdemorse...@yahoo.com> wrote: Yes... and some very interesting stuff too... It's also interesting also how widespread the interbreeding between Neanderthal and Denisovan's appears to have been based on DNA Interestingly there now appears to have been at least two separate hominid species -- including Homo floresiensis i.e. the Hobbits -- that in addition to the Neanderthal in Europe primarily -- have left a genetic trail in the heritage of the peoples now living in Micronesia and amongst aboriginal Australian populations. This is more clear in the case of the Denisovan's and Neanderthal and we can only speculate whether it also occurred between homo sapiens and homo floresiensis, but I somehow suspect it happened. As we become more astute in reading DNA and understanding the larger sequences that exist in them and their lineages I suspect we will be finding other interesting lineages mixed in to our code... and that we are a hybridized species. But then is this not the way of nature :) Comparing genomes, scientists concluded that today's humans outside Africa carry an average of 2.5 percent Neanderthal DNA, and that people from parts of Oceania also carry about 5 percent Denisovan DNA. A study published in November found that Southeast Asians carry about 1 percent Denisovan DNA in addition to their Neanderthal genes. It is unclear whether Denisovans and Neanderthals also interbred. [Other studies seem to indicate that they did] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/science/gains-in-dna-are-speeding-research <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/science/gains-in-dna-are-speeding-researc h-into-human-origins.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0> -into-human-origins.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 -----Original Message----- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Russell Standish Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 3:33 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: HUMANS all come FROM AFRICA: HERPES does not lie On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:28:19AM +1300, LizR wrote: > I didn't realise there was still much doubt about this. I thought > studying human DNA had made the out of Africa hypothesis fairly > robust. (Obviously more confirming evidence will add another sigma, or > whatever...) > There is some evidence of interbreeding between the H. sapiens that migrated from Africa, and the indigenous Neanderthal and Denisovan species. IIRC, the indigineous species contributed something like 10% of the genetic code to the humans from those areas - N to Europeans, and D to some island populations off Asia. So its not quite Out of Africa exlusively, more like mostly "Out of Africa", with a small dash of "Multiregionalism". But its fascinating what we've learnt just in the last decade. When my son asked me (for a science assignment) to name a significant scientific technology, I immediately said "PCR"! Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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