Гены неизвестного четвертого вида сидят в нас.
Вид Гомо Сапиенс (то есть мы) несет в себе гены неандертальцев, недавно открытых денисовцев и еще какого-то пока не открытого четвертого вида. Так на сегодняшний день утверждают ученые. Хотя у меня эти генетические открытия стали вызывать некоторый скептицизм.
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/38361/title/Ancient-Genomes-Reveal-Secrets/
"What it begins to suggest is that we’re looking at a ‘Lord of the Rings’-type world-that there were many hominid populations,” Mark Thomas from University College London, who did not participate in the work, told Nature News.
Even though Denisovan and Neanderthal genomes had been sequenced before, Reich explained at the meeting that the sequences were of low quality, according to Nature. Using bones recovered from a cave in Siberia, Reich and his colleagues generated much-improved sequences. The superior genomes showed that the Denisovans produced offspring with another group of unknown ancient hominins that probably lived in Asia more than 30,000 years ago, Reich told Nature.
“There’s a very strong signal, difficult to question,” Johannes Krause of the University of Tubingen, who was not involved in the work, told New Scientist. The genetic traces of the unknown people probably belong to a known hominin that just has not been genetically examined yet, Krause added."
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/38361/title/Ancient-Genomes-Reveal-Secrets/
"What it begins to suggest is that we’re looking at a ‘Lord of the Rings’-type world-that there were many hominid populations,” Mark Thomas from University College London, who did not participate in the work, told Nature News.
Even though Denisovan and Neanderthal genomes had been sequenced before, Reich explained at the meeting that the sequences were of low quality, according to Nature. Using bones recovered from a cave in Siberia, Reich and his colleagues generated much-improved sequences. The superior genomes showed that the Denisovans produced offspring with another group of unknown ancient hominins that probably lived in Asia more than 30,000 years ago, Reich told Nature.
“There’s a very strong signal, difficult to question,” Johannes Krause of the University of Tubingen, who was not involved in the work, told New Scientist. The genetic traces of the unknown people probably belong to a known hominin that just has not been genetically examined yet, Krause added."