Lebrai:

this is just another racist conspiracy
they are trying to say Africa has ape or neanderthal relations

Thegoodone13:
Yoruba are special creatures

FirstbornWds:


Truth is, no sane Ape will allow another animal to come close to having sex with it. So unless the "modern" man tranquilizes the Ape, it might end in tears for the rapist.

themonk:


Usually DNA tells alot of stories. Infact the history of all living things are embedded in the DNA, humans intermingled with similar human species in the past so we have a component of their DNA.

It's not something to be ashamed of, Euro-Asians intermingled with brute Neanderthals too.

By the way you are pretty.

Lebrai:

this is just another racist conspiracy
they are trying to say Africa has ape or neanderthal relations

FirstbornWds:


Truth is, no sane Ape will allow another animal to come close to having sex with it. So unless the "modern" man tranquilizes the Ape, it might end in tears for the rapist.

Lebrai:

they try to say africans have the closest and it's a lie it's actually the Europeans fossil evidence even has it that Neanderthals were still there 4-5 thousand years ago

AfroBeatDiary:
Yoruba are so endowed... I like the part that said we interbreed

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Lebrai:

this is just another racist conspiracy
they are trying to say Africa has ape or neanderthal relations

alfasexy:
No wonder they are always doing rituals and minning skulls. Descendants of ghosts.

Lebrai:

this is just another racist conspiracy
they are trying to say Africa has ape or neanderthal relations

fairfora:
Some of their discoveries could be true. Yorubas have been appointed attorney-general of Gambia before....

LamidiCownu:

Says a lifeless osu with no significant history or ancestry .
Well , judging from the 5 erosion ravaged pigsty , Osus could as well be descendants of pigs

Dmec:
They have succeeded in deceiving you

Kennyswag:
i dont understand.. can someone explain to me?

Sundaypaul12345:

I rest my comments

jamesbawa:


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-51508616

BULLIONVAN4:
Little boy!!

grow up already.

Commentor:


It goes like this - based on DNA evidence, the ancestry of manc can be traced to early times.

However, there are some slight variations in human DNA that suggest some mixing with sometimes other races, sometimes other hybrids.

With the Yoruba and Esan people, there is a variation that cannot be explained, hence the term "ghost".

They believe another hybrid, not particularly known to scientist as of yet, may be the cause of this variation.

Commentor:

Commentor:


If a topic is above your intelligence, you could always pass by and allow others make a statement.

Foreigners would be disgusted by many of you on Nairaland.

You don't project the black race in any shade of illumination.

jamesbawa:


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-51508616

Kennyswag:
i dont understand.. can someone explain to me?

ZombieHUNT:


Shame on you

itsIYKE:
I have been saying it that yoriba people are directly descended from apes

MrPresident1:
They are the only people in the world without Neanderthal DNA

Ghost in the shell: Never-before-seen extinct species of human found lurking in genes of today's West Africans, study finds

https://www.rt.com/news/480784-extinct-human-dna-found-africa/

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A new study comparing the genomes of 405 West African people to Neanderthal and Denisovan sequences has revealed the “ghost” of a mysterious and previously unknown hominin that once lived alongside our ancestors.

The study, by Arun Durvasula and Sriram Sankararaman of the University of California, Los Angeles, published this week in the journal Science Advance, sequenced the genomes of people from four modern West African populations.

After feeding the detailed data into very powerful computers, and then cross-examining and comparing them to Neanderthal and Denisovan sequences (as well as other modern African genomes) a spectral presence faintly revealed itself. Hidden deep in the DNA code of present-day humans is evidence of an extinct human species, detectable only by a few tell-tale genetic markers lingering in their ancestors. 

Human, but not Homo sapiens

The study’s authors say that these genetic differences are best explained by hybridisation with an unknown humanoid. This suggests that ancestors of modern West Africans interbred with a yet-undiscovered species of archaic human – similar to how ancient Europeans mated with Neanderthals. 

Once, many species of humans roamed the Earth, of which Homo sapiens was just one. In 2014 a landmark genetic study revealed that human beings of European and Asian descent are not entirely human, as we had previously understood the term. That is, they are partial hybrids of at least three human species: Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans. Denisovan DNA seems to be mostly found in Oceanian and some East-Asian populations, but basically everyone except sub-Saharan Africans has some Neanderthal DNA lingering in their cells, around 4 percent on average.

The researchers believe that the ancestors of this unknown archaic"ghost" hominin branched off from the modern human family tree before Neanderthals did. They even seem to have left their mark in modern populations to an even greater extent than Neanderthals: the amount of ‘ghost’ DNA in modern West African people ranged from 2 to 19 percent.

With the help of mathematical models and computer-aided number crunching, the team estimates that this archaic hominin split off from the ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans between 360,000 and 1 million years ago. Then, from about 124,000 years ago, that break-off hominin reunited with the ancestors of modern West Africans and interbred with them, for an unknown period of time. They believe that the population of this introgressing hominin group was about 25,000 strong.

Although this is a simplified version of events – the separating and admixture of different populations and sub-species can be extremely muddled and complex – this is the most likely scenario that can be pieced together from the limited evidence. 

Out of Africa
One of the most remarkable things about the 2014 bombshell was that it proved that the only people on the planet who did not have any Neanderthal DNA were sub-Saharan Africans. This is because most of the interbreeding between different human species happened outside of the African continent, after the first humans had ventured out and began spreading to the rest of the world. Sub-Saharan African people’s ancestors have, as best we know, never left sub-Saharan Africa. But far from making them a uniform or an inbred population, they are in fact by far the most genetically diverse peoples on Earth. Just compare a Maasai warrior to a Congolese pygmy to a Ghanaian sprinter – there is more variation here than anywhere else on the planet.

European and Asian populations, although displaying a tremendous amount of morphological (physical) differences, from body size to facial shapes, are surprisingly inbred. But as the ancestors of European and Asian people migrated out of Africa, most would have died off in so-called ‘bottleneck’ events. Any number of new threats, from plague, to new predators or environmental catastrophes could have killed off swathes of the migrants, leaving only a few alive to reproduce and spawn the next generation.

1. No Neanderthal genes in subsaharan people including Yorubas
2. The sample for this study was drawn from Yoruba and Mende [and Esan] people
3. European and Asian populations are inbred, that is, they are full of inbreeding
4. Ghosts or Irunmoles or the Orishas