quote: Ghost populations also lurk in ancient DNA. While analysing high-quality genomes of a Neanderthal and a Denisovan, a team led by Reich and Montgomery Slatkin at the University of California, Berkeley, noticed a peculiar pattern: present-day sub-Saharan Africans are more closely related to Neanderthals than they are to Denisovans 4. But evidence from other ancient genomes suggested that the two archaic groups were equally related to present-day Africans. After weighing the possibilities, the scientists realized that they might have uncovered another ghost population.
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These discoveries are only the beginning. The Akey and Reich teams found that the genomes of east Asians possess, on average, slightly more Neanderthal DNA than do people of European ancestry. Akey sees this as possible evidence that Neanderthals interbred with ancient humans on at least two separate occasions: once with the ancestors of all Eurasians, and later with a population ancestral only to east Asians. And Akey believes that humans are likely to bear genetic scraps from other extinct species, including some that interbred with the ancestors of humans in sub-Saharan Africa.
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This is double speech:" a team led by Reich and Montgomery Slatkin at the University of California, Berkeley, noticed a peculiar pattern: present-day sub-Saharan Africans are more closely related to Neanderthals ", how can Neanderthals seem to be a close kin to Africans, yet Africans do not carry Neanderthal DNA; when both groups lived together in Africa? .
Ish Gebor Member # 18264
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quote:Originally posted by Clyde Winters: This is double speech:" a team led by Reich and Montgomery Slatkin at the University of California, Berkeley, noticed a peculiar pattern: present-day sub-Saharan Africans are more closely related to Neanderthals ", how can Neanderthals seem to be a close kin to Africans, yet Africans do not carry Neanderthal DNA; when both groups lived together in Africa? .
You missed this thread,
"The Neanderthal and Aterian and Mousterian in North Africa":
I focus in this one more Ghost populations. Likely these African Ghost populations in these "Neanderthal papers". In other words masked out African populations.
Clyde Winters Member # 10129
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quote:Originally posted by Ish Gebor:
quote:Originally posted by Clyde Winters: This is double speech:" a team led by Reich and Montgomery Slatkin at the University of California, Berkeley, noticed a peculiar pattern: present-day sub-Saharan Africans are more closely related to Neanderthals ", how can Neanderthals seem to be a close kin to Africans, yet Africans do not carry Neanderthal DNA; when both groups lived together in Africa? .
You missed this thread,
"The Neanderthal and Aterian and Mousterian in North Africa":
I focus in this one more Ghost populations. Likely these African Ghost populations in these "Neanderthal papers". In other words masked out African populations.
I agree. The problem is no one wants to be ostracized by the Academe, hopefully someone in the field will get established, i.e., tenure, and unmask the genetic evidence.
Right now, given the Mota article revision, Reich and the Harvard cabal is trying to maintain the status quo. I am trying to keep abreast of the literature because I believe the evidence will come out in one of the less popular journals published in Europe.
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