This man discovered his ancestor 9000 years ago / Unbelievable

05/26/2023 adminancestor, discovered, man, unbelievable, years0 comment

How would you feel if you happened to find a relative who lived about 9,000 years ago? That’s exactly what happened to Adrian Targett, a retired history teacher from Somerset, England. He noticed a familiar face on the front page of several newspapers. This was the image of the so-called Cheddar Man. (Sounds like cheese, doesn’t it? Anyway…) His skeleton was discovered in 1903 in Cheddar Gorge, near Somerset. (Now that makes sense.) Scientists used his DNA as a template to create a portrait of one of the oldest people…

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The ghost ancestor in the human genome. How did artificial intelligence help find it?

11/28/2022 adminancestor, artificial, find, genome, ghost, human, Intelligence0 comment

The case is not particularly new, but it perfectly shows how modern technology makes it easier for scientists to do their work. In this case, it is about identifying a previously unknown species that Homo sapiens encountered on their way to Africa thousands of years ago. Read also: Master of Diplomacy with Artificial Intelligence. We may feel threatened Neanderthals and Denisovans can certainly be mentioned in the list of species with which ours have interbred over the millennia. Using deep learning algorithms, researchers analyzed Eurasian DNA in which they found…

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A strange armored worm found in China. Whose ancestor is he?

09/28/2022 adminancestor, armored, China, Strange, Worm0 comment

Fossil worm 1.2 cm long found in China – named after Wufengela – was a stocky creature covered with a dense, regularly overlapping set of plates on its back, belonging to an extinct group of crustaceans called Tommotiid. Read also: A fossil from 30 million years ago was found in the Baltic Sea. It looks like a praying mantis Surrounding the asymmetric armor was a fleshy body with a series of flattened lobes protruding from the sides. Tufts of bristles grow from the body between the lobes and the shell.…

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The search for a meaningful clue to the mystery of the enslaved ancestor

08/13/2022 adminancestor, clue, enslaved, meaningful, mystery, search0 comment

History Old newspaper ads serve as a window into the hopes and histories of hundreds of newly emancipated individuals. Taiwo Kujichagulia-Seitu with her family members in Oakland, Calif., on July 25, 2022. Kujichagulia-Seitu is searching for clues to help reunite her family, which was separated during the domestic slave trade. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) By Rachel L. Swarns, New York Times Service August 13, 2022 | 9:37 am In the 1880s, Edward Taylor rose to editorship of a weekly black newspaper in New Orleans. Born into slavery, he fought…

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OPPO Reno 8 Z 5G is almost a point-to-point ancestor

08/04/2022 adminancestor, OPPO, pointtopoint, Reno0 comment

Smartphone makers have no qualms about launching new models whose names hint at the next generation of devices, and there are as many changes as the cat cried. Let’s look at a case OPPO Reno 8Z 5G, Five months, new model, almost no changes OPPO presented the old-new smartphone during the presentation in India. It seems that the naming of the model Reno 8Z 5G, It will differ in one specific way from the previous generation of the device that has been on the market for a few months. Where…