Ancient DNA Reveals a Ghost Population of 'African Neanderthals'

In a new study, ancient DNA has revealed a ghost population of African Neanderthals. What this means is that there were more Neanderthals living in Africa than we thought, and they may have even interbred with the ancestors of modern humans!

This study is a big discovery, and it has implications for the genetic history of our species. It also has implications for our understanding of human origins and the evolution of human anatomy. So if you're interested in archaeology or genetics, make sure to watch this video to learn more about it!

This discovery is fascinating, and has a lot of implications for the way we think about Neanderthals and their relationship to modern humans. It's an exciting time to be a researcher in the field of ancient DNA, and we're learning more and more about our ancient ancestors every day!

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[chrisbishop]

I have friends that go to bars to mate with anything remotely human . some things never change.

[ADE-of-LAGOS]

There is nothing like "African Neanderthal". Keep that "Neanderthal " term to Europeans for which it discovered.

[Radrook]

Data can be interpreted to fit preconceived notions.

[correctpolitically]

Yea this is theory passed off as fact. What it lacks is proof and result.And is african neanderthal the same as european neanderthal ? No ? Well then its a different species isnt it. So stop calling it the same species .

[russpaxman]

I am often baffled by the scientific assertion of the “Out of Africa” theory,
That implies that hominids only ever traveled out of Africa, and never traveled back into Africa after they had left that continent?
This is not the way animal populations move,
with animals, there is an ebb and flow of populations both out of, and back into the areas where that species originated.
It seems likely that the hominids that moved out of Africa experienced harsher conditions and had to evolve to deal with those conditions, once those evolved abilities derived from harsher environments produced a more competitive individual, it seems likely that if they moved back to their ancestral homeland, they would have a competitive edge, when compared to the ancestral stock, and would therefore prosper.

[erikcreature]

There were no Neanderthals in Africa, only Eurasians have some Neanderthals genetics, black Africans don't have any Neanderthal genetic from out of Africa, but only from way later into Africa genetics.

[AnthropoTube]

The idea that West Africans partially descend from another species of human is hypothetical. It's not based on actual comparisons between the DNA of West Africans and that of another species; instead, it's based on the presence of DNA in West Africans that is absent in everyone else.

However, this is not surprising considering that Sub-Saharan Africans have more genetic variation than all other populations combined, which means that they should have DNA that is exclusive to themselves or exclusive to a subset of them.

Additionally, there are studies that indicate that a portion of the DNA sequences has been detected in Asians and people of European descent. Read _Supplementary Materials for Recovering signals of ghost archaic introgression in African populations_ by Arun Durvasula and Sriram.

[michaelroberts]

The ghost population are not African Neanderthals, but homo erectus, sometimes called homo ergaster.

[joecottrell]

Big little short or tall, we mated with them all.

[spacewater]

Don't make the mistake of thinking that homo sapiens sapiens is a species. Homo sapiens is a species, neanderthalus, denisovus, florensis, sapiens (and many others such as aleutians, Australian aborigines, etc.) are all subspecies of human. Australian aborigines specifically have a strange story (by the way, they're perfectly capable of having viable offspring with homo sapiens sapiens) that starts with them being genetically isolated from ALL other humans from 70, 000+ years ago until only a few centuries ago.

[avatar-wcjd]

And ALL this INFO is being SPAT OUT BY A DESCENDANT of

[markopolozoomanitty]

Neanderthals are primarily Middle Eastern and East Asian. As a matter of fact, Native Americans have high levels of neanderthal DNA.

[Ben-]

there's no way they looked like that they have straight hair not woolly hair

[Ben-]

Does any one think though that some archaic humans died out which is fact. So is it not possible that modern humans got certain better DNA from the ancient ones and some got the lesser DNA from some of the different branches?

[robblerouser]

I think Stefan Milo would call it a boink fest.

[JohnDoe-jnex]

That's why they look like Mighty Joe Young.

[larrywilliams]

They need to do proteomics on the 13k yo african skull with archaic features. The skull, found in the Iwo Eleru cave in Nigeria in 1965, does not look like a modern human.

[thatdudee]

Yorubas have Orisa aka Annunaki in their DNA. Movies like the Black Panther and JagunJagun on Netflix are real

[johngaither]

Why do your depictions of possible African species and subspecies of proto-Sapien combinations have such light skin color? They evolved in Africa so isn't it far more likely and probable they had a black skin complexion rather than tan, brown or even less likely white?

[belkyhernandez]

The last comment about the geography of Africa seemed random and wasn't tied into anything.