Now before anyone screams "aliens" lets bere in mind that recently Scientists anounced that the human gene pool seems to include DNA from Neanderthals as well as Denisovians. That suggests humans interbred with their primate cousins at some point before the Neanderthals went extinct about 30,000 years ago. Furthermore, in a paper published in the journal "Nature" a group of international researchers…collected genomic data on 83 Aboriginal Australians and 25 Highland Papuans from Papua New Guinea. The findings indicated their ancestors had diverged from Eurasians 57,000 years ago, following a single exodus from Africa around 75,000 years ago.
The data may show Aboriginal Australians came to the continent as early as 31,000 years ago.(my understanding is that it was over 50,000 years ago) and Yowies were already well established in Australia at that time according to their oral traditions,
Whats really interesting is that its been shown that ancestors of modern Aborigines as well as indigenous people from Papua New Guinea and of India, had encounters with an as of yet geneticly unkown species of early hominid.
Analysis of DNA from modern indigenous populations in Australasia show evidence that they assimulated DNA from this undiscovered and mysterious ancestor as they migrated. To quote...
"'We show that populations from South and Southeast Asia harbor a small proportion of ancestry from an unknown extinct hominid and that this ancestry is absent from Europeans and East Asians, the researchers wrote in Nature geonomics."
My take on this new data is this...
The research shows quite clearly that the ancestors of indigenous populations in parts of what is now Asia and the Pacific appear to have interbred with not only the Neanderthals but another prehistoric species called the Denisovans and as the new study has revealed that they may have mated with a third species who's DNA does not match any hominid species on record.
Dr Ketchums reference to sasquatch genome containing DNA from a novel "non human male" is a bit misleading "undiscovered extinct hominid" would be a less inflamatory way to discribe this DNA donor and fits more in line with yowies as a type of genetic cousin to homosapiens. As most indigious tribes traditions will relate yowie type beings can very rapy buggers, which sad as it is, would have allowed genetic transfer of the DNA anomaly in either direction I suppose.
Whats really Aussie proud awsome is that it also proves by proxy that Sasquatch arrived in America after Yowies were established in ancient Australia. How so? Because the newly discovered mystery hominid gene is not carried by ancestral Europeans and is predominant in Australian aboriginals, whom have, to my knowledge no ancestry found in the fossil records of the Americas or europe, ergo if both the mystery DNA found in sasquatch is a match to the newly discovered relic hominid DNA found in Australias aboriginal population and lets say , not in the genome of the American indian, then all european based sasaquatch must have migrated out of the former landmass we now call Australia.
This in turn smashes asunder the skeptics age old argument against the existance of Yowies due to the lack of a landbridge, allowing migration into ancient Australia. That argument has always been floored falsely assuming that Yowie is a divergent type of Gigantopithicus blacki when they are actualy a Co-evolved yet divergent sub spiecies of many relic hominids.
Ill let the true egg heads sum it up.
Quote...."Europeans or east Asians do not have these particular DNA sequences, which suggests the third hominin met our early ancestors in south Asia or the Pacific region..." Said Partha Majumder, director National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), told IANS."
So lets pull out the maps and see when aboriginals, Indians, some asians and pacific islanders gene pool's could have mingled in such a way as to allow for the newly discovered (but relic) DNA to be introduced to specific ancestral races and yet geographicly exclude euroasians et al.
i mean "Maybe" they have.... 