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    Posted: 31-Aug-2012 at 13:55

Humans, Neanderthals related to yet another group

From a finger bone, scientists have reconstructed the genetic world of an entire population of extinct human relatives called Denisovans. But questions still abound about who exactly they were.

They weren’t quite like modern humans or Neanderthals, but some other group entirely. Everything we know about the Denisovans is based on a finger bone and two teeth.

Those small remnants, found in a cave in southern Siberia, are enough to figure out a few important things about these ancient people - including that some people today share genes with them.

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the Denisovan genome, with a quality that is about as high as the genome of a person alive today. That means scientists can learn about as much genetically about a person who lived tens of thousands of years ago as they could about a living person. The findings, published this week in the journal Science, deliver a wealth of insight about ancient people who roamed the Earth tens of thousands of years ago.

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/30/humans-neanderthals-related-to-yet-another-group/?hpt=hp_t3
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Yes, the mysterious Denisovans. The biggest amount of their gene clages are found in the Australian and New Zealand Aborigines, with teh facial type to go with.
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Lets not forget homo floresiensis, that's four species of humans running around, so no reason to think there isn't more to come. 
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Do not forget bubs also!SmileAmoebas and others?!?This could easy go in racial waters.Regards.Master and slaves have DNA reasons for being this people?!?It is destiny of ours....Bull....t..
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What DNA reasons for slavery? No one says anything like that. People had been enslaving each other from time immemorial, slavery has an economic reason, not a racial one.
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Originally posted by Mountain Man

Humans, Neanderthals related to yet another group

From a finger bone, scientists have reconstructed the genetic world of an entire population of extinct human relatives called Denisovans. But questions still abound about who exactly they were.

They weren’t quite like modern humans or Neanderthals, but some other group entirely. Everything we know about the Denisovans is based on a finger bone and two teeth.

Those small remnants, found in a cave in southern Siberia, are enough to figure out a few important things about these ancient people - including that some people today share genes with them.

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the Denisovan genome, with a quality that is about as high as the genome of a person alive today. That means scientists can learn about as much genetically about a person who lived tens of thousands of years ago as they could about a living person. The findings, published this week in the journal Science, deliver a wealth of insight about ancient people who roamed the Earth tens of thousands of years ago.

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/30/humans-neanderthals-related-to-yet-another-group/?hpt=hp_t3

Rats and pigs also share certain DNA sequences with man. I believe chimps share 98% of their DNA with Homo Sapiens sapiens. It must be noted that even such a small percentage can make a huge difference in the species. Thus to compare a homind species to mankind because we share DNA sequences means little.
 
That said I would bet there were many hominid type species that were quite similar to man, neanderthalensis being the closest. More than likely we killed them all off in a manifesto of natural selection. That is the real story here.
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Well my tiswin isn't quite ready...BUT...when it is, I will welcome them with open arms into the history of that race known as ...man.
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