New Human Species Discovered

[Neon Genesis]

Did Jesus die for the sins of Woman X? http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62N4VS20100324

(Reuters) - Genetic material pulled from a pinky finger bone found in a Siberian cave shows a new and unknown type of pre-human lived alongside modern humans and Neanderthals, scientists reported on Wednesday.

 

Science

 

The creature, nicknamed "Woman X" for the time being, could have lived as recently as 30,000 years ago and appears only distantly related to modern humans or Neanderthals, the researchers reported.

 

"It really just looked like something we had never seen before," Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, told a telephone briefing.

 

"It was a sequence that looked something like humans but really quite different."

 

Writing in Nature, Krause and colleagues said they sequenced DNA from the mitochondria, a part of the cell, which is passed down virtually intact from a woman to her children. They compared it to DNA from humans, Neanderthals and apes.

 

The sequence indicates the hominin's line diverged about a million years ago from the line that gave rise to both humans and Neanderthals and that split about 500,000 years ago.

 

That makes it younger than Homo erectus, the pre-human that spread out of Africa to much of the world about 1.9 million years ago.

 

"It is some new creature that has not been on our radar screen so far," said Svaante Paabo, a colleague of Krause's who specializes in analyzing ancient DNA.

 

And it would have lived near to both modern humans and Neanderthals. "There were at least three ... different forms of humans in this area 40,000 years ago," Paabo said.

 

Krause and Paabo are careful not to name the creature a new species just yet. They are now working to sequence nuclear DNA -- the DNA that makes up most of the genetic code, which will tell a great deal more about "Woman X".

[hereticzero]

I believe they worked for Dept of Veterans Affairs?

[dagnarus]

Well my guess would be that, theologically your not strictly speaking required to believe that anything and everything which scientists classify as being human, was in fact imbued with the image of God, or whatever it is which marks humans out as being in need of saving. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there a branch of theology which said that only white people were descended from Adam, and that the blacks were all just a human-like animal which Cain interbred with?

 

Oh, that, and this is just part of the world-wide conspiracy of the scientific community designed to lead people away from the truth of the Gospel.

[Ouroboros]

Satan planted it.

 

No, wait, it's a skeleton of the aliens, The Ancients, who came here and started our genetic progress to intelligence.

 

Or, maybe it's just an abnormal monkey?

 

(Just kidding, of course)

[dagnarus]

Satan planted it.

 

No, wait, it's a skeleton of the aliens, The Ancients, who came here and started our genetic progress to intelligence.

 

Or, maybe it's just an abnormal monkey?

 

(Just kidding, of course)

 

Yeah, they actually stunted our progress to prevent us from becoming a threat. Bastards.

[Vigile]

I believe they worked for Dept of Veterans Affairs?

 

And the DMV.

[OpheliaGinger]

It's an alien I tells ya.

[Ouroboros]

Satan planted it.

 

No, wait, it's a skeleton of the aliens, The Ancients, who came here and started our genetic progress to intelligence.

 

Or, maybe it's just an abnormal monkey?

 

(Just kidding, of course)

 

Yeah, they actually stunted our progress to prevent us from becoming a threat. Bastards.

They gave our ancestors a damn apple to eat, with some nanobots in there that reprogrammed our brains. If we never had the idea of right and wrong, we would never have invented religion.

 

Damn lizards...

[Ouroboros]

Homo Simpson