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Once again, a deflection. Just because someone is a quack doesn't mean they are wrong.

Get back on topic, or are you going to continue to hammer at this one thing and ignore published peer reviewed sources on the Denisovan Cave?

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Okay then:

"Yeah, more out of Africa debunked theory, Our haploid markers show why that theory was proven wrong ages ago and yet keeps getting pushed forward inthe name of a liberal narrative.

We are closer to Asian than elsewhere and even then there are problems with those haploid markers"

Explain without linking what the Denisov cave shows us and how it proves your statement above and the into africa theory.

Then and only then will I engage. Otherwise I will still want to know why link to a quack when if you know the material you should be able to find loads of people who have written about this.

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I give it about six months before the first serious disagreement about the wife swapping.

Because NO ONE has ever lived on a compound without wives being swapped at some point.

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Husband had a chance for us to relocate to TN. I wasn’t agin it but I was after reading this.

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It’s in the compound association rules.

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Go ahead, let them set up their little fantasy village. They'll end up shooting each other in no time at all.

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I guess Waco Texas was too upscale for them. How about Utah or Arizona? (oops sorry I forgot the polygamists already live there).

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Hitler himself didn't care about that nonsense. Yes he had much more important things to do.

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Indiana Jones and Hellboy agree with you but sadly Our President does not.

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Umm, false. Earliest H. Sapiens, Africa approx 200,000 years ago. They don't appear in Asia until around 100,000 years ago.

Stay stupid.

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There's a woman mayor in Hilsdale, these wackos for sure won't go near it.

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Huh. All the heathens I know are on the exact opposite side of the political spectrum. Close enough to Wiccans that they go to the same social events. I did not not know this was a thing.

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More A-holes ruining a perfectly good thing. Paganism, that is.

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Without linking the Denisovan Cave? Humanity came up in multiple locations not just in Africa.

A detailed comparison of the Denisovan, Neanderthal, and human genomes has revealed evidence for a complex web of interbreeding among the lineages. Through such interbreeding, 17% of the Denisova genome represents DNA from the local Neanderthal population, while evidence was also found of a contribution to the nuclear genome from an ancient hominin lineage yet to be identified,[12] perhaps the source of the anomalously ancient mtDNA. DNA from this archaic species represents as much as 8% of the Denisovan genome.[34]

Analysis of genomes of modern humans show that they mated with at least two groups of Archaic humans: Neanderthals (more similar to those found in the Caucasus than those from the Altai region)[12] and Denisovans.[19][22][35] Approximately 4% of the DNA of non-African modern humans is shared with Neanderthals, suggesting interbreeding.[22] Tests comparing the Denisova hominin genome with those of six modern humans – a ǃKung from South Africa, a Nigerian, a Frenchman, a Papua New Guinean, a Bougainville Islander and a Han Chinese – showed that between 4% and 6% of the genome of Melanesians (represented by the Papua New Guinean and Bougainville Islander) derives from a Denisovan population; a later study puts the amount at 1.11% (with an additional contribution from some different and yet unknown ancestor).[36] This DNA was possibly introduced during the early migration to Melanesia. These findings are in concordance with the results of other comparison tests which show a relative increase in allele sharing between the Denisovan and the Aboriginal Australian genome, compared to other Eurasians and African populations; however, it has been observed that Papuans, the population of Papua New Guinea, have more allele sharing than Aboriginal Australians.[37]

Melanesians are not the only modern-day descendants of Denisovans. David Reich of Harvard University, in collaboration with Mark Stoneking of the Planck Institute team, found genetic evidence that Denisovan ancestry is shared also by Australian Aborigines, and smaller scattered groups of people in South-East Asia, such as the Mamanwa, a Negrito people in the Philippines though not all Negritos were found to possess Denisovan genes; Onge Andaman Islanders and Malaysian Jehai, for example, were found to have no significant Denisovan inheritance. These data place the interbreeding event in mainland South-East Asia, and suggest that Denisovans once ranged widely over eastern Asia.[38][39][40] Based on the modern distribution of Denisova DNA, Denisovans may have crossed the Wallace Line, with Wallacea serving as their last refugium.[41][42] A paper by Kay Prüfer in 2013 said that mainland Asians and Native Americans had around 0.2% Denisovan ancestry.[43]

The immune system's HLA alleles have drawn particular attention in the attempt to identify genes that may derive from archaic human populations. Although not present in the sequenced Denisova genome, the distribution pattern and divergence of HLA-B*73 from other HLA alleles has led to the suggestion that it introgressed from Denisovans into humans in west Asia. As of 2011, half of the HLA alleles of modern Eurasians represent archaic HLA haplotypes, and have been inferred to be of Denisovan or Neanderthal origin.[44] The apparent over-representation of these alleles suggests a positive selective pressure for their retention in the human population. A higher quality Denisovan genome published in 2012 reveals variants of genes in humans that are associated with dark skin, brown hair and brown eyes – consistent with features found with Melanesians today.[45]

As of 2013 it has been suggested, in the absence of genomic evidence, that the Red Deer Cave people of China were the result of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Denisovans within a few thousands years of the end of the last glacial period.[46]

In 2013 the Neanderthal genome project published evidence of a minimum 0.5% Neanderthal gene flow into the Denisovans.[47] The Denisovan genome shared more derived alleles with the Altai Neanderthal genome from Siberia than with the Vindija cave Neanderthal genome from Croatia and the Mezmaiskaya cave Neanderthal genome from the Caucasus, suggesting that the gene flow came from a population that was more closely related to the Altai Neanderthal.[47] The Denisovan genome includes a component derived from an unknown hominin that diverged long before the modern human/Neanderthal/Denisovan separated, suggesting a possible gene flow from said unknown hominin to Denisovans or a population sub-structure.[47]

According to a study published in Nature in July 2014, a region of DNA around the EPAS1 gene that assists with adaptation to low oxygen levels at high altitude found in Tibetans is also found in the Denisovan genome. The study involved 40 Han Chinese and 40 people of ethnic Tibetan background; the EPAS1 gene served as a reference point for where to sequence the DNA.[48][49]

Studies published in March 2016 suggest that modern humans bred with hominins, including Denisovans and Neanderthals, on multiple occasions.[50]

You are going to believe what you want to believe even though the facts are there that humanity didn't come from one location. I'll let you read the copy paste because you seem incapable of reading directly from the wikia with the notes that put actually published research.

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Stay ignorant and classy. But keep believing in a false narrative.

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Darn! Guess my sarcasm detector malfunctioned 😎😎😎

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