Mystery Humans Spiced Up Ancients' Sex Lives 238
ananyo writes "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 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."
Nice to see (Score:5, Funny)
Nice to see that we came by our propensity to fornicate with anything in a natural manner.
Re:Human Relatives (Score:5, Funny)
In the beginning, we were all fish. Okay? Swimming around in the water. And then one day a couple of fish had a retard baby, and the retard baby was different, so it got to live. So Retard Fish goes on to make more retard babies, and then one day, a retard baby fish crawled out of the ocean with its...mutant fish hands... and it had butt sex with a squirrel or something and made this. Retard frog-sqirrel, and then *that* had a retard baby which was a... monkey-fish-frog... And then this monkey-fish-frog had butt sex with that monkey, and that monkey had a mutant retard baby that screwed another monkey... and that made you!
So there you go! You're the retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt sex with a fish-squirrel! Congratulations!
I wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
...if any sheep genomes were found?
Re:Human-like? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Human Relatives (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Human Relatives (Score:5, Funny)
So you say we all evolved out of a bunch of managers?
Sorry, but there I draw the line. When Darwin said we evolved outta monkeys, ok. I could dig that. But managers... YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW!
Re:Human Relatives (Score:5, Funny)
Butt sex doesn't you pregnant. What are they teaching in school these days?
Not enough English?
It also explains in evolutionary terms (Score:4, Funny)
Man's insatiable appetite for midget porn. Or is that just me?