New Ancient Human Identified

krou writes "Working on a finger-bone that was discovered in the Denisova Cave of Siberia's Altai mountains in 2008, Johannes Krause from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and colleagues managed to extract mitochondrial DNA. They compared it to the genetic code of modern humans and other known Neanderthals and discovered a new type of hominin that lived in Central Asia between 48,000 and 30,000 years ago. Professor Chris Stringer, human origins researcher at London's Natural History Museum, said, 'This new DNA work provides an entirely new way of looking at the still poorly-understood evolution of humans in central and eastern Asia.' The last common ancestor of the hominid (dubbed 'X-Woman'), humans and Neanderthals seems to have been about one million years ago."

X-Woman

[MillionthMonkey]

That's the name of my next daughter.

Huh?

[Idiomatick]

Is Professor Xavier being politically correct nowadays? Being 48,000 years old is a cool super power but she's dead so I fail to see how she could help fellow mutants.

Re:Hello? Anybody here?

[Anonymous Coward]

<sound>Crikets.wav</sound>

No, that'll never work. You should have used the <audio> tag.

Re:Sleeper

[jamesh]

Not much you can do with half a finger.

You have far too little imagination.

Want to know what he looked like?

[Chees0rz]

Take a picture, load it into photoshop, content aware fill, and BAM sneak peak into the past.

Re:Sleeper

[esme]

Not much you can do with half a finger.

Wendy's would beg to differ.

Re:Wait...what?

[jamesh]

Maybe God created Neanderthal Man in His image, and we went and wiped them all out. That would explain why he's pissed off all the time with all the wrath and stuff.

Did the cave have a stargate in it?

[Joe The Dragon]

Did the cave have a stargate in it?