First Ancient-Human Genome Sequence Answers Anthropological Riddle

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/inuk-genome/

Meet Inuk, a 4,000-year-old man known from a tuft of hair found in Greenland permafrost.

In those frozen strands, enough DNA was preserved to sequence the first ancient-human genome and confirm an unexpected ancient migration from Siberia to the New World, plus a few of Inuk’s own traits.

Along with brown eyes, brown skin and facial hair, he had “a tendency to baldness,” said Eske Willerslev, a Niels Bohr Institute evolutionary geneticist who led the analysis, published Monday in Nature. “But because we found quite a lot of hair from this guy, we presume that he died young.”

The remains of Inuk — which translates to “person” or “human being” in the Inuit language family — were found in Qeqertasussuk, an archaeological site in southwest Greenland.

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[endless october]

1. cool. k/r

[xchrom]

2. Hmmmmph Baldness!?! --

If you only knew what you started.

Bad, bad man.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. If they can find evidence of the "sons of god" marrying the sons

of man.... they will put to bed some of the most persistent questions known to man... they may even explain the "missing link" thingy.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. "Sons of God?" Please explain.

This isn't any of that Zechariah Stitchin woo-woo nonsense, is it?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Lemme see..... ah here you go....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_God

Lines of Seth View

One hypothesis is that the sons of God are the descendants of Seth, the pure line of Adam. The daughters of men are then seen as the descendants of Cain. This is the view put forth by the pseudepigraphical work: Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan.
Angelic View

A second hypothesis states that the "sons of God" are a category of fallen angel referred to as Watchers who came to earth and had children with the daughters of men. This union resulted in a race of half-angel, half-human beings known as the Nephilim, and subsequently, the Emim, Rephaim and Anakim.
Etymology-based

A third hypothesis revolves around the fact that "elohim" means god or gods.<1> In the Hebrew "Elohim" is God's name but it is a plural word. Even though the name is more often used with the -im plural suffix while still meaning a singular form, the use of "Ha" before the name (which is the Hebrew equivalent of the word "The") transforms the word into strictly plural, though apologists such as Dr. Chuck Missler<2> regard this as a testament to the Trinity.)

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. That's not a 'persistent question', that's a local Iron Age myth

If you're going to say we need to investigate all 3000 year old myths from all cultures, then there'd be no time for real science or archaeology.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. I'm saying we need to find out when "mankind" took a quantum

leap so to speak and how it might have happened.

[never cry wolf]

6. Eastern Siberia to Greenland? Did he take the northern passage?

Eastern Siberia would be closer to Alaska, Greenland closer to Scandanvia. He must have gone over the top, no?