I am not a believer in Darwinism, 6 day Creationism or any absolute theory on the origins of man. I totally believe God influenced and had a hand in our development, but that there were other factors as well. Many civilizations have legends of Human beings that came from the sky and mated with Earth Humans. Now a new discovery of a new hominid species from 400,000 years ago might validate these legends. Researchers have uncovered a new species of humans in a cave in Northern Spain. The DNA sequences of this humans suggest that another unknown species of humans mated with our early ancestors.
The oldest human DNA ever recovered is throwing scientists for a loop: The 400,000-year-old genetic material comes from bones that have been linked to Neanderthals in Spain — but its signature is most similar to that of a different ancient human population from Siberia, known as the Denisovans.
The researchers who did the analysis said their findings show an “unexpected link” between two of our extinct cousin species. Follow-up studies could crack the mystery — not only for the early humans who lived in the cave complex known as Sima de los Huesos (Spanish for “Pit of Bones”), but for other mysterious populations in the Pleistocene epoch.
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As anthropologists are getting better at extracting DNA from ancient bones, genetic mysteries are cropping up more frequently: Last month, researchers at scientific meetings talked about not-yet-published findings that hinted at interbreeding among Neanderthals, Denisovans and previously unknown populations of early humans.
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The other scenario is that an as-yet-undetermined population interbred with ancestors of the Spanish cave-dwellers as well as the Denisovans. Meyer, Pääbo and their colleagues tentatively favor that scenario. “Based on the fossil record, more than one evolutionary lineage may have existed in Europe during the Middle Pleistocene,” they write.
This mysterious species of humans could very well be the people many civilization claim fell from the sky. One must keep an open mind to the roots of man.
