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Coyote Member (Idle past 2364 days) Posts: 6117 Joined:
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Study sheds more light on the hobbit people
Study sheds more light on the hobbit people — Popular Archeology A study completed by scientists in France has concluded that, based on an examination of a key skull specimen attributed to Homo floresiensis, the cranial features do not support its attribution to the modern human species, Homo sapiens.With the recent finds regarding Neanderthal, early Out of Africa, Denisova, and now H. floresiensis things are getting a lot more complex, and a lot more interesting. Maybe there's something to the multiregional model after all:
But wait! There's more! Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals
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| Nature Abstract: It has been shown that Neanderthals contributed genetically to modern humans outside Africa 47,000—65,000 years ago. Here we analyse the genomes of a Neanderthal and a Denisovan from the Altai Mountains in Siberia together with the sequences of chromosome 21 of two Neanderthals from Spain and Croatia. We find that a population that diverged early from other modern humans in Africa contributed genetically to the ancestors of Neanderthals from the Altai Mountains roughly 100,000 years ago. By contrast, we do not detect such a genetic contribution in the Denisovan or the two European Neanderthals. We conclude that in addition to later interbreeding events, the ancestors of Neanderthals from the Altai Mountains and early modern humans met and interbred, possibly in the Near East, many thousands of years earlier than previously thought. Edited by Coyote, : But wait! There's more!Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge. Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1 "Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.
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Adminnemooseus Inactive Administrator |
Thread copied here from the Study sheds more light on the hobbit people thread in the Proposed New Topics forum.
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Hyroglyphx Inactive Member |
We conclude that in addition to later interbreeding events, the ancestors of Neanderthals from the Altai Mountains and early modern humans met and interbred, possibly in the Near East, many thousands of years earlier than previously thought. The timeline concerning human events seems to get pushed further back upon each discovery. The rediscovery of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, for instance, dates even further back than Sumerians along the Fertile Crescent which means that agriculture vs hunter/gatherer may have began sooner than previously believed. "Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine
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Coyote Member (Idle past 2364 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
Concerning this recent article in Nature,
If the new discovery checks out, it will no longer be possible to assert that the deepest split in our species, H. sapiens, involves African populations. A modest interpretation of these results would assert an earlier (pre-100kya) exodus of our species from Africa, and a more bold one would seek to re-examine the geographical origin of H. sapiens itself. Dienekes’ Anthropology BlogFebruary 17, 2016 Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge. Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1 "Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.
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Hyroglyphx Inactive Member |
What about the current Out of Africa theory is incorrect? Just the timeline?
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine
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Coyote Member (Idle past 2364 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
What about the current Out of Africa theory is incorrect? Just the timeline? From the evidence that we're seeing, certainly the timeline seems to be incorrect. Looking at the figure in the first post, it is possible that there were other scenarios than the two shown there--most likely some combination of the two? For example, we have a lot of fossils of Homo erectus in southeast Asia. The standard out-of-Africa model is shown above and in the chart below. It is starting to look like there was more leakage between the groups than had been realized, with more influence from earlier groups persisting to and merging with the out-of-Africa migration. The amount of that influence is still being argued about.
[blockcolor=white] Edited by Coyote, : Add blockcolor to figure.Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge. Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1 "Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1663 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
It is starting to look like there was more leakage between the groups than had been realized, with more influence from earlier groups persisting to and merging with the out-of-Africa migration. The amount of that influence is still being argued about. So the time-line is all effed up? (sorry could help it) We saw similar mixing of traits in the Homo naledi (New Species of Homo Discovered: Homo nalediHomo[/i] Discovered: Homo nalediHomo[/i] Discovered: Homo naledi and Interweaving Evolution & Hybrid Vigor) which is not shown on your last graphic. Note: if you use [blockcolor=white][img](image location url)[/img][/blockcolor] you get a more viewer friendly image:
And we also saw in historical times that European explorers came into contact with native humans in north and south America after >10,000 years of isolation or so and lost little time in interbreeding ... Interesting. Edited by RAZD, : .by our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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Coyote Member (Idle past 2364 days) Posts: 6117 Joined:
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Here is another chart which represents some recent evidence:
There is a discussion of this at Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog under the date February 20, 2016. The text reads, in part:The picture on the left (source) shows quite nicely that according to current understanding, Africans are nested within Eurasian genetic variation. The modern humans have the following structure: Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge. Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1 "Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.
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Blue Jay Member (Idle past 2956 days) Posts: 2843 From: You couldn't pronounce it with your mouthparts Joined: |
I'm still on the fence about the multiregional hypothesis. It's abundantly clear to me that hominin lineages were not cleanly divided into discreet units, and that our species is not descended from a single tribe of intrepid explorers coming out of Africa. However, I still feel like there's a whole lot of overinterpretation going on.
In my mind, the Multiregional hypothesis would have predicted a much higher rate of introgression than is being detected. All detected mixing has so far been attributable to very small numbers of events, so it seems clear to me that the major pattern in human evolution has been divergence among regional populations/species, rather than admixture.-Blue Jay, Ph.D.* *Yeah, it's real Darwin loves you.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1663 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
... All detected mixing has so far been attributable to very small numbers of events, ... It would be interesting if we could determine whether this was due to a small number of occasional events, Or it was due to reduced interfertility\compatibility, so only a few offspring survived. Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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Jon Inactive Member |
... All detected mixing has so far been attributable to very small numbers of events, ... It would be interesting if we could determine whether this was due to a small number of occasional events, Or it was due to reduced interfertility\compatibility, so only a few offspring survived. Or the superior sapiens genetic material swamping out the other stuff as older generations gave way to newer ones.Love your enemies!
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1663 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Or the superior sapiens genetic material swamping out the other stuff as older generations gave way to newer ones. How would this work? Natural selection deselecting offspring? Usually there is some "hybrid vigor" when there is interbreeding, a factor that is used in domestic animal breeding programs. A reduction of interfertility is something that would be expected on the path to genetic isolation. Mules are an example where the reduction in interfertility still produces offspring, but they have severely limited ability to breed -- even though they do show "hybrid vigor" ... Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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Jon Inactive Member |
How would this work? The superior genetic material gets selected for every generation. As the generations pass, the amount of inferior material swimming through the populations lessens.
Natural selection deselecting offspring? Every selection for one thing is a selection against something else.Love your enemies!
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14174dm Member (Idle past 1367 days) Posts: 161 From: Cincinnati OH Joined: |
Just curious -
Is there a standard definition of "episode" or "event" when talking about interbreeding? One couple - one child?One family for one generation? Tribe/clan for ten generations? I guess a related question would be - Do we have any idea of the populations we are talking about for each of the branches - 10's 100's 1,000's ..... alive at one time?
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Coyote Member (Idle past 2364 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
At this point the amount of interbreeding is pretty much unknown. Up until recently it was largely thought that no interbreeding took place, but with genetic studies we're finding out it was pretty common. Next I guess will be filling in more of the details.
The big news from recent finds is the date and nature of the out-of-Africa movement for modern humans is being refined, and the multi-regional hypothesis is being reexamined. Stay tuned!Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge. Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1 "Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.
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