“The majority of Takarkori individuals’ ancestry stems from a previously unknown North African genetic lineage that diverged from sub-Saharan African lineages around the same time as present-day humans outside Africa and remained isolated throughout most of its existence,” they said in a study recently published in Nature.
The Takarkori individuals are actually close relatives of 15,000-year-old foragers from Taforalt Cave in Morocco. Both lineages have about the same genetic distance from Sub-Saharan groups that existed during that period, which suggests that there was not much gene flow between Sub-Saharan and Northen Africa at the time. The Taforalt people also have half the Neanderthal genes of non-Africans, while the Takarkori have ten times less. What is strange is that they still have more Neanderthal DNA than other sub-Saharan peoples who were around at the time.
That headline deserves to be taken out and shot for the amount of misinformation that can be easily interpreted into it. I also think it’s just wrong, after all, we even share some DNA with trees and cyanobacteria.
Doesn’t mean this isn’t a supremely interesting find! After all, the early Saharan cultures during the times when it was Savannah-like are a field that is very much actively being uncovered at the moment.
Interesting question, are there any two living beings that don’t share DNA?
Do you count viruses as living beings? If not then I do believe all living beings share at least some genes, tracing back to the last universal common ancestor.
Even viruses have genes. Some of them don’t have DNA though!
that depends if artificial and/or nonterrestrial life exists