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[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 69 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans

this is journalistic malpractice, modern humans share DNA with grass for fucks sake. we share over 90% of our DNA with our other ape relatives, and largely don't consider them people.

the only way the headline could be correct is if they're mummified aliens.

[–] abc@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago

the only way the headline could be correct is if they're mummified aliens.

just-a-week-away

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don’t we share 70% of our DNA with a banana or some crap

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

not that mich but idk how much, and the figures between genes and DNA can differ dramatically.

all life on Earth diversified here and descended from a common ancestor. while we're on the topic no, octopuses and squids are not aliens lmao. look at this crap: https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/123479-trending-science-do-octopuses-come-from-outer-space

they really bury the lede here

[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

We do share about 50% of genes with bananas. At the end of the day, most multicellular life relies on extremely similar proteins and biomechanical pathways.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

“The majority of Takarkori individuals’ ancestry stems from a previously unknown North African genetic lineage that diverged from sub-Saharan African lineages around the same time as present-day humans outside Africa and remained isolated throughout most of its existence,” they said in a study recently published in Nature.

The Takarkori individuals are actually close relatives of 15,000-year-old foragers from Taforalt Cave in Morocco. Both lineages have about the same genetic distance from Sub-Saharan groups that existed during that period, which suggests that there was not much gene flow between Sub-Saharan and Northen Africa at the time. The Taforalt people also have half the Neanderthal genes of non-Africans, while the Takarkori have ten times less. What is strange is that they still have more Neanderthal DNA than other sub-Saharan peoples who were around at the time.

Really Cool

[–] Bakzik@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Ok, I had to deep in the old memes tomb just to find this:

But while I was at It, I found out that the Ancient Aliens show keeps getting new seasons. I thought that it ended about a decade ago.

Tsoukalos keeps grifting...

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess it's pretty cheap to produce I b the grand scheme of things, given they don't do any actual research

I seen some of the newer parts, it's basically barely coherent word salad and pure time filler, not even funny anymore.

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago

more like a previous unknown dna branch of humans

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

yeah they don't share any DNA with humans? that's crazy big news!

[–] DelgadoSlims@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

Big whoop. I have cousins that don't share DNA with modern humans either

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Humans share around 84% of DNA with dogs.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Ooh is this a green sahara mummy? Or was that way longer than 7k years ago

sounds like my dad's side of the family.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago
[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Incels don't share DNA with other humans either