(March 17, 2016 at 3:38 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Fuck your bible, asswipes!
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/scienc...ss&emc=rss
Quote:Humans Interbred With Hominins on Multiple Occasions, Study Finds
Quote:The ancestors of modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and another extinct line of humans known as the Denisovans at least four times in the course of prehistory, according to an analysis of global genomes published on Thursday in the journal Science.
The interbreeding may have given modern humans genes that bolstered immunity to pathogens, the authors concluded.
“This is yet another genetic nail in the coffin of our over-simplistic models of human evolution,” said Carles Lalueza-Fox, a research scientist at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona who was not involved in the study.
And it still happens:
![[Image: hamape.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=4.bp.blogspot.com%2F_HfSXLXtVnOI%2FSJodiHi_qDI%2FAAAAAAAABKA%2FSr0ePr4oBiI%2Fs400%2Fhamape.jpg)
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"