Posted on 02/21/2016 5:06:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ever since geneticists sequenced the first Neanderthal genome in 2010, researchers have been reporting just how related humans are to their ancient, extinct cousins. Since then, there's been more research. And more. And more.
As it turns out, non-African modern humans have Neanderthals to thank for 1 to 4 percent of their DNA. The two species were thought to have interbred around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, based on the Neanderthal DNA found in anatomically modern human specimens and people living today.
But scientists had yet to find a signature of such mating interactions in Neanderthal DNA, until now.
"Instead of leaving fragments of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans, we find fragments of modern human DNA in the Neanderthal genome," says Adam Siepel, a computational biologist who heads the quantitative biology program at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
Dr. Siepel, as part of an international team of geneticists, anthropologists, and computer scientists, found that a Neanderthal specimen from Siberia shared at least 1 percent of its DNA with modern humans. And that mating event happened some 100,000 years ago. Their results were published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
"Humans and Neandertals must have met considerably earlier than we thought previously," Siepel tells The Christian Science Monitor in an interview.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
More importantly do you know where cats go when they cannot be found?
Huh, imagine that. Interspecies breeding.
Will future scientists find muslim DNA in goats?
Nah, that’s a whole FAMILY’s difference, or ORDER... never mind.
Good one...
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RE: If you look, there is an article titled âNeanderthals Sang Like Sopranos,â I believe.
And now for the woo-woo factor ...
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HOW MUSIC WAS BORN (BY MEL BROOKS):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVSBxu14gdg
Handel was inspired by the Neanderthals.
50,000 years. Could it have been 50,001 years? Were any of these scientists around then to definitely know exactly?
(10cc recreating a song they had done under the band name "Hotlegs")
With some Neanderthal gal dancing, to boot.
I am still so disappointed in her.
Hey, consenting Hominids, Saturday night...who am I to judge?
Total, unmitigated rubbish, should make anybody embarrassed to suggest or repeat.
DNA analysis shows modern humans to be 99.9% the same as other modern humans and 94% of that tiny difference is amongst individuals of the same populations.
Only 6% of the difference is between different populations.
For example, and not to pick on the poor Danes (who are electing Bernie Sanders their president, iirc) but there are far more DNA differences amongst them, than between Danes and, say, Asians.
Comparing: Neanderthal DNA is 99.5% the same as modern humans, and now DNA evidence shows interbreeding, meaning they were, by definition, the same species as us.
Bottom line: there is no possible way for Neanderthals to have fundamental genetic differences from modern humans, such as suggested by these ridiculous photos.
Further, the process by which black Africans slowly evolved lighter skins in Europe took just tens of thousands of years, not the hundreds of thousands of years during which Neanderthals evolved in Europe, before humans arrived.
So there is zero likelihood that Neanderthals remained black over a much longer period than it took modern humans become pale-faces.
More realistic depictions of Neanderthals:
Thanks BroJoeK, I hadn’t realized that comic book garbage was back. No scientist has made any of those conclusions (extraordinary eye size, slit iris, nocturnal, beast-like hair), and the one who used to continually troll about it wound up banned, and good riddance. It’s not as if he hadn’t been banned before, under a series of nicks, and each time for good reason, and good riddance.
Thanks PIF and BroJoeK for the pings.KEYWORDS: neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
a few selections from the FRchives:
They go into another dimension where they aren’t bothered by lower life forms such as dogs and humans.
Now that’s a rare one - thanks, Daffy!
That is, of course, why we call it the Mewn.
I did. The pic of Matt Moneymaker. He says things akin to...Squatches communicate by knocking on trees, Squatches are often found wherever there are coyotes, Squatches eat said type of berries or fruit. I’d just like to ask him whenever he’s viewed them doing these things and if he’s ever interviewed one so is humans can get the lowdown on their lifestyle...lol
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