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Starman
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Posted - 03/25/2010 :  00:53:12  Show Profile Send Starman a Private Message  Reply with Quote
John Hawks on the mitochondrial sequence report on the new Denisova specimen
Man, the press is worse than I imagined. Nature's news article goes fully with the "new species" interpretation -- even though the paper itself does not include the word "species" -- and every other outlet I've seen is following suit.

I have to teach my class this afternoon where we'll be talking about this mtDNA sequence, so I don't have time for a longer update. Let me say very clearly: nothing about this sequence requires there to have been an undiscovered hominin species.
Read it!
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Originally posted by Starman

John Hawks on the mitochondrial sequence report on the new Denisova specimen
Man, the press is worse than I imagined. Nature's news article goes fully with the "new species" interpretation -- even though the paper itself does not include the word "species" -- and every other outlet I've seen is following suit.

I have to teach my class this afternoon where we'll be talking about this mtDNA sequence, so I don't have time for a longer update. Let me say very clearly: nothing about this sequence requires there to have been an undiscovered hominin species.
Read it!


A much better and more in-depth article than the one I read. Now, I await AiG's response -- they'll have the right take on it!

Thanks for the read!
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Starman
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Posted - 03/25/2010 :  09:23:37   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Starman a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Carl Zimmer keeps track of the updates in this post:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/03/24/the-x-womans-fingerbone/
"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
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Starman
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Posted - 03/28/2010 :  03:22:48   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Starman a Private Message  Reply with Quote
More to read at The Atavism:

Does a forty thousand year old finger point to another human species?
"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
-- Terry Jones
Edited by - Starman on 03/28/2010 03:29:47
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