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straykat
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Expanding into… what?!
That’s another question we can’t answer
That’s another question we can’t answer
And, do we need to?That’s another question we can’t answer
Hahahahahahaha!It’s quite simple actually, we were tossed out of Paradise through a wormhole.
I agree…byt purely from a spiritual rather than intellectual perspective it might not matter.I don’t. But any astrophysicist and astronomer would have a resounding “Yes!”
That still doesn’t explain why we’re the dominant ones out of the bunch…and they’re dead. Let alone explain why we’re the dominant ones out of everything afaik.That’s because other sub-species and cousin species of Homo have since died off. Our genetic diversity is limited because we spent most of our history, as a species, as a relatively small group in Africa. It’s only in the last 50 000 years or so that we’ve started to spread out across the globe.
And that’s just chimps. The same could be said for apes.The authors also contrasted the levels of genetic differentiation between the chimpanzees from the different groups with those based on similar data from humans from different populations. Surprisingly, even though all the chimpanzee populations lived in relatively close proximity (with the habitats of two groups separated only by a river), chimpanzees from different populations were substantially more different genetically than humans living on different continents.
Professor Peter Donnelly, Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford and a senior author on the study, said: "Relatively small numbers of humans left Africa 50 000-100 000 years ago. All non-African populations descended from them and are reasonably similar genetically.
“That chimpanzees from habitats in the same country, separated only by a river, are more distinct than humans from different continents is really interesting. It speaks to the great genetic similarities between human populations, and to much more stability, and less interbreeding, over hundreds of thousands of years, in the chimpanzee groups.”