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Scientists Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Mummies in the Desert That Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans (www.popularmechanics.com)
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“The majority of Takarkori individuals’ ancestry stems from a previously unknown North African genetic lineage that diverged from sub-Saharan African lineages around the same time as present-day humans outside Africa and remained isolated throughout most of its existence,” they said in a study recently published in Nature.

The Takarkori individuals are actually close relatives of 15,000-year-old foragers from Taforalt Cave in Morocco. Both lineages have about the same genetic distance from Sub-Saharan groups that existed during that period, which suggests that there was not much gene flow between Sub-Saharan and Northen Africa at the time. The Taforalt people also have half the Neanderthal genes of non-Africans, while the Takarkori have ten times less. What is strange is that they still have more Neanderthal DNA than other sub-Saharan peoples who were around at the time.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That headline deserves to be taken out and shot for the amount of misinformation that can be easily interpreted into it. I also think it's just wrong, after all, we even share some DNA with trees and cyanobacteria.

Doesn't mean this isn't a supremely interesting find! After all, the early Saharan cultures during the times when it was Savannah-like are a field that is very much actively being uncovered at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Interesting question, are there any two living beings that don't share DNA?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you count viruses as living beings? If not then I do believe all living beings share at least some genes, tracing back to the last universal common ancestor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Even viruses have genes. Some of them don't have DNA though!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

that depends if artificial and/or nonterrestrial life exists

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Wow, alien mummies!