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Offline Clive

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Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us
« on: December 22, 2010, 22:35 »
Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from bones in Siberia co-existed and interbred with our own species.

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Re: Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2010, 10:00 »
I thought I'd read about this some time ago...
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Re: Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2010, 10:29 »
It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone has relatives in Norfolk.
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Re: Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2010, 10:38 »
I thought that was Suffolk? ;)
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Re: Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2010, 10:54 »
Oooh, have they been inter-breeding too.  There'll be a News Of The Screws journalist investigating, I'm sure.  Mind, when we're talking about other forms of humans and journalists crop up in the conversation... :)
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Re: Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2010, 11:14 »
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