No Other People Share Their DNA.
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More stupidity and misrepresentation by authors that don't do their homework is proven all too clearly by such shit writing and little more than click bait crap. It needs to Stop!
Currently, there was a post that came out earlier today:
Scientists Found 6,000-Year-Old Human Remains.
No Other People Share Their DNA.
By Elizabeth Rayne
Published: Feb 28, 2026 10:56 AM EST
She starts this off with the question: If they have no ancestors or descendants, then who are they?
The article exaggerates and misunderstands what ancient DNA studies actually show. No human population can exist with no ancestors and no descendants—that would violate basic principles of Population Genetics and Evolution.
What the study really means is “no currently sampled genetic continuity”, not literal isolation from humanity or the human species.
Below are the main problems and the corrected explanations.
1. The headline is scientifically wrong
Claim:
“Scientists Found 6,000-Year-Old Human Remains. No Other People Share Their DNA.”
Reality:
All humans share the vast majority of DNA. What researchers mean is:
The individuals form a genetic cluster not yet found in other ancient samples.
No direct genetic continuity has been identified with modern populations in the current dataset.
Ancient DNA research always suffers from sampling gaps. Only a tiny fraction of ancient people have been sequenced.
So the accurate statement would be:
“These individuals represent a genetic lineage not yet identified in other sampled populations.”
That is common in ancient genomics.
2. “They vanished from the genetic record” is misleading
Claim:
“They disappeared from the genetic record.”
Reality:
They did not literally vanish.
Possible explanations:
Population replacement: Later migrants may have largely replaced them genetically.
Genetic dilution: Their genes mixed into other populations and became hard to detect.
Sampling bias: No other sequenced individuals yet show the same genetic profile.
Ancient populations frequently disappear as identifiable clusters due to migration and mixing.
3. The article contradicts itself
It says:
They are unrelated to Indigenous Colombians
Yet they are connected to Chibchan populations
Those statements cannot both be absolute.
Chibchan speakers today live in:
Panama
Costa Rica
northern Colombia
So if the ancient population is related to Chibchan speakers, they are related to modern Indigenous groups, just not as a direct unbroken lineage.
4. Ancient DNA cannot prove “no descendants”
Genomics can only show:
detectable ancestry
relative closeness between populations
It cannot prove the absence of descendants.
Reasons:
Ancient DNA samples are extremely sparse
Many populations are extinct or unsampled
Genetic drift hides older ancestry
This limitation is well known in Archaeogenetics.
5. The migration explanation is oversimplified
The article describes a simple split between:
northern Native Americans
southern Native Americans
But the real model is far more complex.
The peopling of the Americas involved:
multiple migrations from northeast Asia
later regional migrations
population replacements
long-distance gene flow
Important ancient individuals include:
Anzick Site
the Clovis culture
But they represent only one lineage, not the entire ancestry of the Americas.
6. “Unknown people” is normal in ancient archaeology
Finding populations that do not match known genetic clusters happens regularly.
Examples:
unknown Paleoamerican groups in Brazil
early Californian coastal populations
Arctic migrations
It simply means:
This region’s ancient population history is incomplete.
What the study actually suggests
A more accurate interpretation would be:
Around 6000 years ago a distinct hunter-gatherer population lived in the Bogotá highlands.
This group may have been partially replaced by later migrants related to Chibchan-speaking populations.
Later populations show different genetic ancestry, indicating migration or replacement.
Nothing about this is mysterious or impossible.
✔ Correct conclusion
The remains are not people with no ancestors or descendants.
They are:
a local ancient population
currently underrepresented in genetic datasets
likely partially replaced or absorbed by later populations
The article simply sensationalized normal results in archaeo-genetics.
🔬 What the Science Advances study really found
🧬 1. Genome‑wide DNA from 21 ancient individuals
The researchers sequenced both mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and genome‑wide nuclear DNA from human remains found in the Bogotá Altiplano (high plateau in Colombia), dated from about 6,000 to 500 years before present.
🧠 2. Distinct early hunter‑gatherer population
The oldest individuals (around 6,000 years old) belong to a previously unrecognized branch of early South American ancestry — a basal lineage that had separated from other human populations early in the peopling of South America.
They do not show strong genetic affinity to ancient North American groups and there is no reason why they should or have to.
They also do not contribute genetically to later ancient South Americans or to today’s Indigenous populations in South America, at least not in the sampled genomes.
This doesn’t mean they were “not humans” — just that this particular genetic signature isn’t found in other ancient genomes that have been sequenced so far. There are huge gaps in ancient DNA sampling across the Americas. Scientists are careful to emphasize that absence of evidence is not evidence of absolute isolation; it reflects limits of the current dataset.
🧭 3. Population replacement over time
By around 2,000 years ago, the genetic profile in the same region changes markedly. The later individuals share more ancestry with populations linked to Central America, especially groups associated with the Herrera ceramic tradition and ancestral to later speakers of Chibchan languages (languages spoken today in Panama, Costa Rica, and parts of Colombia).
This suggests that over time there was a genetic shift due to incoming migrations and/or mixing, replacing or overwhelming the earlier hunter‑gatherer genetic profile in the local gene pool.
🧬 4. Key points the paper makes (scientifically)
The ancient Bogota hunter‑gatherers represent a lineage within the broader South American radiation of humanity but are not closely related to nearby ancient North American sources.
They do not appear to contribute appreciably to later genetic profiles in the region — at least among sampled individuals — implying some form of population turnover.
Later ancient individuals share more ancestry with groups to the north (Chibchan‑associated groups), suggesting a shift in the genetic make‑up of the region’s inhabitants over time.
Once Again:
The research doesn’t claim a global absence of descendants; it only observes that their specific genetic signature is not detected in the sampled ancient or modern genomes studied so far. There may be unsampled populations elsewhere where some of their ancestry persists.
All humans share common ancestry. The study does not claim these individuals lacked ancestors in the deeper human family tree — they simply belonged to a branch that hadn’t previously been identified in ancient DNA from the Americas.
All evidence supports that they were early Homo sapiens, part of the early peopling of South America. Their genomes are a recognizable human variant within broader Native American ancestry diversification even if some today still can't deal with the evidence and established facts for whatever personal bias they may have (which isn't valid science either).
🧠 Big picture takeaways
📌 Ancient human population history is complex. There were likely multiple waves of migration, mixing, and population turnover as humans moved into and within South America.
📌 Genetic continuity is not uniform. While some genetic lineages do persist through time, others — like the early Bogotá highland group — may diminish in prevalence or be absorbed into larger, later populations.
📌 Sampling limitations matter. Absence in current data does not prove absence in reality; future ancient DNA from other regions may reveal connections that aren’t yet documented.
That said, always double check and cross reference ANYTHING you read or have been told because of thongs like this. Not everyone is going to comprehend said subjects, are certainly not about proper education as they should be and write garbage to attract readers and making everyone dumber for it.
