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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Mystery humans spiced up ancients’ rampant sex lives
Source: NatureGenome analysis suggests interbreeding between modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and a mysterious archaic population.
New genome sequences from two extinct human relatives suggest that these ‘archaic’ groups bred with humans and with each other more extensively than was previously known.
The ancient genomes, one from a Neanderthal and one from a different archaic human group, the Denisovans, were presented on 18 November at a meeting at the Royal Society in London. They suggest that interbreeding went on between the members of several ancient human-like groups living in Europe and Asia more than 30,000 years ago, including an as-yet unknown human ancestor from Asia.
“What it begins to suggest is that we’re looking at a ‘Lord of the Rings’-type world — that there were many hominid populations,” says Mark Thomas, an evolutionary geneticist at University College London who was at the meeting but was not involved in the work...
The meeting was abuzz with conjecture about the identity of this potentially new population of humans. “We don’t have the faintest idea,” says Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the London Natural History Museum...
Monday, November 18, 2013
Popular restaurant denies using human feces
Oh, it's only due to cleanliness issues – what a relief!Malaysia - The manager of a popular Nasi Kandar restaurant in Ipoh, has vehemently denied the use of human faeces in its dishes after the matter went viral on Facebook.
Mohd Nihmathullah Syed Mustafa said, the closure is due to cleanliness issues and not related to the use of faeces as alleged.
“All our customers from all over Malaysia know about the matter. What had been posted on Facebook has nothing to do with us, it’s merely a misunderstanding,” he stressed.
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