{"id":128155,"date":"2024-11-20T20:48:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T13:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128155"},"modified":"2024-11-20T20:48:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T13:48:48","slug":"scientists-claim-theyve-discovered-ancestral-home-of-all-human-beings-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128155","title":{"rendered":"Scientists claim they&#8217;ve discovered ancestral home of all human beings &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:contents\">\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><strong>Scientists believe they&#8217;ve discovered the ancestral home of humans, after years of trying to pinpoint where human life originated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Despite all the incredible progress <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/science\">science<\/a> has made in understanding evolution and how we came to be on the planet <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/earth\">Earth<\/a>, there&#8217;s still so much we don&#8217;t know about human life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">However, scientists in Australia have sparked debate after using DNA to provide clues about where humans originally came from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Professor Vanessa Hayes, a geneticist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/australia\">Sydney<\/a>, and her team analysed 1,217 samples of mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down from mother to child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The DNA came from people living in southern <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/world-news\">Africa<\/a>, with Hayes noting that &#8216;we have known for a long time that modern humans originated in Africa and roughly 200,000 years ago&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Hayes explained that &#8216;what we hadn\u2019t known until this <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-019-1714-1\">study<\/a> was where exactly&#8217; humans came from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Using the DNA, Hayes and her team traced the oldest maternal line of humans and found it pointed back to an &#8216;ancestral home&#8217; that spreads from <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/world-news\">Namibia<\/a>, across Botswana and into Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Incredibly, the team managed to pinpoint this even further, using geological, archaeological and fossil evidence to find a body of water that would have been Africa&#8217;s largest ever lake.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\">\n<div class=\"article-image_imageWrapper__ANtPE\"><img alt=\"There's still so much we don't know about human life (Getty Stock Photo)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" sizes=\"100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=640&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/bltc9ce1a3167ca6e5b\/6737b168c315d301017a4d38\/GettyImages-2149387527.jpg 640w, 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https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/bltc9ce1a3167ca6e5b\/6737b168c315d301017a4d38\/GettyImages-2149387527.jpg 3840w\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/bltc9ce1a3167ca6e5b\/6737b168c315d301017a4d38\/GettyImages-2149387527.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><cite class=\"image-credit_imageCredit__YMlqS\">There&#8217;s still so much we don&#8217;t know about human life (Getty Stock Photo)<\/cite><\/div>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Hayes explained: \u201cIt would have been very lush and it would have provided a suitable habitat for modern humans and wildlife to have lived.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">It&#8217;s believed that the body of water, which is located just south of the Zambezi river, could have sustained human life for 70,000 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Despite this, some doubt had been shed on the findings, which were published in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2019\/oct\/28\/ancestral-home-of-modern-humans-is-in-botswana-study-finds#:~:text=Scientists%20claim%20to%20have%20traced,otherwise%20parched%20expanse%20of%20Africa.\">According to<\/a> The Guardian, Chris Stringer, who studies human origins at the Natural History Museum in London, commented: \u201cI\u2019m definitely cautious about using modern genetic distributions to infer exactly where ancestral populations were living 200,000 years ago, particularly in a continent as large and complex as Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cLike so many studies that concentrate on one small bit of the genome, or one region, or one stone 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