They are approximately 3000 years old,
and initial DNA analysis of them has revealed that they may not have
come from humans, but from a completely new species, according to
Paracas Museum assistant director, researcher and author Brien Foerster.
Here is the apparent quote from the geneticist who did the testing
“Whatever the sample labeled 3A
has came from – it had mtDNA with mutations unknown in any human,
primate or animal known so far. The data are very sketchy though and a
LOT of sequencing still needs to be done to recover the complete mtDNA
sequence. But a few fragments I was able to sequence from this sample 3A
indicate that if these mutations will hold we are dealing with a new
human-like creature, very distant from Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and
Denisovans. I am not sure it will even fit into the known evolutionary
tree. The question is if they were so different, they could
not interbreed with humans. Breeding within their small population. they
may have degenerated due to inbreeding. That would explain buried
children – they were either low or not viable” (Source)(Source)
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