Artificial Intelligence Has Found an Unknown 'Ghost' Ancestor in The Human Genome

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[–]Zapped 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I would think there are other species that have entered the lineage. As this story says, it could be hybrids that are already part of human ancestry. I read somewhere that humans who left Africa were possibly forced into a small pocket and population, perhaps in the hundreds, in the Middle East tens of thousands of years ago, maybe because Neanderthals hunted them to near extinction.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Things probably would've turned out better if humans did go extinct. Nature itself is evil but nothing else even comes close to humans.

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

So are humans an alien blight on this planet designed to destroy it or were we seeded here so we could reproduce an interstellar army that is no longer needed?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I envisioned early man fleeing Africa only to fuck everything they could on the trip. A prehistoric bestial traveling orgy. And this is scientists today finally going omg they fucked that thing!?

I gotta say the interstellar army sounds a lot more impressive.

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It could be the other way around. Early man, or woman, could have been fucked by every other hominid along the journey.

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just evolved from apes