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[quote:Chromatophore:MV81MTcyNzExXzk1MzM0ODI1XzY5RDExNDg4] They are getting more up to speed. Still same spin on information though lol https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-from-a-strange-fossil-in-south-china-reveals-ancient-link-with-the-first-americans [i] A Strange Fossil in South China Reveals an Intriguing Link With The First Americans Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences evaluated nuclear and mitochondrial sequences extracted from a 14,000-year-old skull, discovering the woman it once belonged to – dubbed Mengzi Ren – was closely related to populations who would eventually be the first to set foot in the Americas.[/i] Or already in Americas….. [i]Since their discovery in 2008, the dozens of late Paleolithic human bones left behind in Malu Dong (Red Deer Cave) in China's south-west have left anthropologists scratching their heads over just who they might have belonged to. Without sufficient collagen to base a carbon dating analysis on, their age can only be estimated from surrounding features of their grave site. It's not even clear if the mix of bones that includes a skull fragment and the top end of a femur all come from the same individual. What is clear is whoever left them behind represented a unique mix of archaic and modern characteristics. It's also possible a few ancestral traits had simply stuck around in their genes, in spite of thousands of years of evolution. To find exactly where Mengzi Ren sat in our sprawling family tree, the researchers sequenced what DNA they could extract, mapped it according to a standard genomic reference model. Since mitochondrial DNA is only passed down through the egg from a mother, they could identify her matriarchal lineage as a now-extinct branch that is now represented by just two modern day sub-populations. A close look at her nuclear DNA verified Megzi Ren's close ties with anatomically modern humans, all but ruling out her heritage among a more ancient stock. "Ancient DNA technique is a really powerful tool," says Bing Su, an archaeologist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. "[b]It tells us quite definitively that the Red Deer Cave people were modern humans instead of an archaic species, such as Neanderthals or Denisovans, despite their unusual morphological features[/b]." Although Mengzi Ren is more closely related to today's southern Chinese populations than those in the north, she has less in common with people who now live across Asia's southeast, suggesting there were already well structured, diversified populations in the region thousands of years ago. [/i] [/quote]
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They say only 3% of earths water is fresh…….
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