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Originally posted by JurijD:

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
Would you consider that our species evolved from several differant lower primates? That over time cross breeding has created what we are today?

Yes, that is an interesting idea that was proposed a few years back. For now it cannot be definately proven nor can it be disproven. But since cross-species breading is an extremely unlikely event (the offspring of such unions in most cases are infertile) I think this is not very likely, but it could have happend.

I still think the most likely event is that we came about by slow mutation of our genes mostly... perhaps cross breading played a role too. but in any case it was all natural, aliens most likely didn´t play a role here and neither did some magical being that flipped a finger and the wolrd appeared... maybe that´s how time-space got started but later on I think physics governs everything.

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Earlier this year there was a paper published in Nature that proved (apparently) there was no crossbreeding between neanthertals and modern man. We simply wiped them out.