I’m running on barely one bar up here at 8,400 feet so I’ll not be able to upload any imagery. I’ll have to make this as short as possible, get it out while I can.
‘Mol’ forwarded me an interesting article from Quanta magazine, a tech-oriented mainstream science online rag. The title of the piece is ‘Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins’, dated August 29th of this year, just a few days ago. A notice at the bottom tells us that the essay was reprinted in Wired magazine (on September 1st). That Wired picked it up so quickly is a suble ‘tell,’ and if you hang in you may see what I mean. Here’s the first paragraph:
Humans today are mosaics, our genomes rich tapestries of interwoven ancestries. With every fossil discovered, with every DNA analysis performed, the story gets more complex: We, the sole survivors of the genus Homo, harbor genetic fragments from other closely related but long-extinct lineages. Modern humans are the products of a sprawling history of shifts and dispersals, separations and reunions — a history characterized by far more diversity, movement and mixture than seemed imaginable a mere decade ago.
It’s another Neanderthal/human who-had-sex-with-who way back when, and at first read one might think that it’s telling us not to think about the mitochondrial DNA issue I’ve been writing about lately, with the above intro hinting that it’s all so complex, we’re lucky we know anything. (Point being: no mention of Mt DNA.)
But wait. A careful read of the piece reveals that Mt. DNA issue isn’t mentioned anywhere. This is very odd, given that no matter how complex the interbreeding issue may (or may not) be, one thing we know without doubt (based on hundreds of thousands of modern human sequenced DNA), is that sex between Neanderthals and our ancestors was one-way only: Between Neanderthal males and human females.
Addendum: If you doubt that this is the case, please see Bryan Sykes’s reply to my post titled ‘Human Origins, More Lies, wherein he admits he’s ‘puzzled’ that no Neanderthal DNA has showed up in human Mt DNA.
Maybe someday we’ll find evidence that once or twice the sex went the other way, but until then, we’ll have to accept the one-way sex as factual data.
And yet… and yet… the only place you’ll find this astounding information (astounding for its implications of inter-species rape and war) is right here on my little blog. How could that be?
See, I repeat this because in the Quanta article of a few days ago and in the even more recent reprint in Wired, the author likewise keeps his trap shut about the one-way sex issue. A few paragraphs down we find this:
‘But it’s one thing to say that Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of modern Europeans, or that the recently discovered Denisovans interbred with some older mystery group, or that they all interbred with each other. It’s another to provide concrete details about when and where those couplings occurred. “We’ve got this picture where these events are happening all over the place,” said Aylwyn Scally, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Cambridge. “But it’s very hard for us to pin down any particular single event and say, yeah, we’re really confident that that one happened — unless we have ancient DNA.”
What’s this paragraph really saying? I mean without saying it? This: ‘Again, everything is so complicated we might as well give up (on the interbreeding issue).’
On a second reading of the oh-so-recent article that forgets to mention the Mt DNA issue and its implications, I found myself saying this: ‘But holy shit do they want to keep this quiet or what?!’
I say this because the take-away from this tech-savvy piece is that due to interbreeding, human DNA might have made its way into the Neanderthal genome!
No shit, Sherlock! Depending on the genetic history of the Neanderthal specimen you are sequencing – if he/she has a ‘human in the woodpile,’ then of course you might find human DNA in the test tube! Whaddothey think, we’re fucking stupid?
But here’s how they avoid insulting our intelligences: The article then goes off on the subject of multi out of Africa diasporas, i.e., when our ancestors left and how many times they did so.
Let’s see now. They start with the subject of interbreeding, claiming it’s too complicated to worry about, meanwhile leaving out the one piece of inarguable evidence that tells us about the relationship between the two species, then they… change the subject.
Misdirection anyone?
I have to fess up that I don’t know if any of the rest of the article makes sense or not, but I do find it suspicious that my ‘Human Origins, More Lies’ post comes out on August 13 and two weeks later we get the above misdirection from the tech-mainstream, immediately reprinted in Wired. (Recall that the Mt DNA surprise came in 2010, almost a decade ago. Why are they worrying about it now?)
As I’ve said, I believe the PTB keep a pretty close eye on me, notwithstanding my meager subscribership. I say this because of my list of exposés, the latest being the issue we’re still discussing. Before that… shit… you want to hear the list? Who else of the alt media – name one – has said word one about the Spacex fraud? Go back over my posts and find one essay the subject of which you have heard elsewhere. And this doesn’t even count my ‘outings’ of limited hangouts and full-blown moles. (Recall ‘Miles Mathis’s many accusations that I’m a state mole. Why bother?)
Remember the Sikh temple bombing? Anyone else point out that the ‘lone nut’ had to have been driven there by a cohort? I point it out then three days later NBC does a hurry-up piece saying ‘there were rumors he took a cab.’ Well, then why didn’t they find the cabbie? Why did that story die? And so forth. (I just realized that my video had been taken down, without notification. Last time I looked it had like 10,000 views…. Later… one of you found the video.)
Those of you who have ‘problems’ with me will say ‘There goes Weisbecker’s ego again!’
Yeah, well, I really should do a list, the point of which would not be how smart I am, but rather how fucking dirty the alt media is. (The real point here is that we have still another mainstream piece of deceit/misdirection, whether inspired by me or not. What I’d really like to know is whether the people involved — and there are many, including those at Wired Magazine — know what they’re doing, or are they just living in astounding denial.)
Enough. Thanks to Mol for the link. (Mol, did you notice what I’ve pointed out here, or were you thinking the piece somehow debunked me?)
Allan
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