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Flemmy@lemm.ee to History@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago

Scientists Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Mummies in the Desert That Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans

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Scientists Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Mummies in the Desert That Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans

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Flemmy@lemm.ee to History@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago
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This ancient people lived in the Sahara when it was a much more welcoming environment.
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  • Abracadaniel [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    That Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans

    this is journalistic malpractice, modern humans share DNA with grass for fucks sake. we share over 90% of our DNA with our other ape relatives, and largely don’t consider them people.

    the only way the headline could be correct is if they’re mummified aliens.

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      the only way the headline could be correct is if they’re mummified aliens.

      just-a-week-away

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Don’t we share 70% of our DNA with a banana or some crap

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        not that mich but idk how much, and the figures between genes and DNA can differ dramatically.

        all life on Earth diversified here and descended from a common ancestor. while we’re on the topic no, octopuses and squids are not aliens lmao. look at this crap: https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/123479-trending-science-do-octopuses-come-from-outer-space

        they really bury the lede here

        • SootySootySoot [any]@hexbear.net
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          We do share about 50% of genes with bananas. At the end of the day, most multicellular life relies on extremely similar proteins and biomechanical pathways.

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    “The majority of Takarkori individuals’ ancestry stems from a previously unknown North African genetic lineage that diverged from sub-Saharan African lineages around the same time as present-day humans outside Africa and remained isolated throughout most of its existence,” they said in a study recently published in Nature.

    The Takarkori individuals are actually close relatives of 15,000-year-old foragers from Taforalt Cave in Morocco. Both lineages have about the same genetic distance from Sub-Saharan groups that existed during that period, which suggests that there was not much gene flow between Sub-Saharan and Northen Africa at the time. The Taforalt people also have half the Neanderthal genes of non-Africans, while the Takarkori have ten times less. What is strange is that they still have more Neanderthal DNA than other sub-Saharan peoples who were around at the time.

    Really Cool

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    Ok, I had to deep in the old memes tomb just to find this:

    But while I was at It, I found out that the Ancient Aliens show keeps getting new seasons. I thought that it ended about a decade ago.

    Tsoukalos keeps grifting…

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      I guess it’s pretty cheap to produce I b the grand scheme of things, given they don’t do any actual research

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        deleted by creator

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      I seen some of the newer parts, it’s basically barely coherent word salad and pure time filler, not even funny anymore.

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    Sick, alien mummies

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      more like a previous unknown dna branch of humans

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      yeah they don’t share any DNA with humans? that’s crazy big news!

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    Big whoop. I have cousins that don’t share DNA with modern humans either

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    “Cuz they were dogs”

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      Humans share around 84% of DNA with dogs.

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    Ooh is this a green sahara mummy? Or was that way longer than 7k years ago

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    Need pics!

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    sounds like my dad’s side of the family.

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    Incels don’t share DNA with other humans either

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