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You May Be Part Neanderthal, Scientists Say
Fox News ^ | July 18 2011 | Nick Patterson

Posted on 07/18/2011 11:42:37 PM PDT by Beowulf9

Is there a little Fred Flintstone in you? According to a new genetic analysis, some of the human X chromosome originates from Neanderthals -- but it's found exclusively in people outside Africa. The ancestors of Neanderthals left Africa about 400,000 to 800,000 years ago. They evolved over the millennia mostly in what are now France, Spain, Germany and Russia, and went extinct (or were simply absorbed into the modern human population) about 30,000 years ago. The ancestors of early modern humans left Africa about 80,000 to 50,000 years ago, according to DiscoveryNews.com. Despite that wide spread in time, genetic material from Neanderthals still can be found in a piece of DNA (called a haplotype) in the human X chromosome -- meaning the two clearly mated. "This confirms recent findings suggesting that the two populations interbred," says Dr. Labuda. His team places the timing of such intimate contacts and family ties early on, probably at the crossroads of the Middle East. Neanderthals possessed the gene for language and had sophisticated music, art and tool craftsmanship skills, so they must have not been all that unattractive to modern humans at the time, DiscoveryNews.com noted. "There is little doubt that this haplotype is present because of mating with our ancestors and Neanderthals," Nick Patterson of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University told DiscoveryNews.com. He added, "This is a very nice result, and further analysis may help determine more details."

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: caveman; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; human; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; varmintspsm
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1 posted on 07/18/2011 11:42:39 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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2 posted on 07/18/2011 11:44:18 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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"Ridiculous."


3 posted on 07/18/2011 11:44:54 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Is this saying that the FoxP2 gene in Europeans is different than the FoxP2 in people of African descent?

There’s a whole lot of conclusions one can come to about that, and most of them are not very politically-correct...


4 posted on 07/18/2011 11:48:35 PM PDT by djf ("Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." Oscar Wilde)
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To: Beowulf9; Salamander; Markos33

Yup!

And I know just which part of me it is.

(Wink-wink, nudge-nudge, say-no-more!)


5 posted on 07/18/2011 11:49:46 PM PDT by shibumi (While Pablo was wily, William Blake was even more wilier. But the wiliest of all was Desdinova.)
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To: Beowulf9
His team places the timing of such intimate contacts and family ties early on, probably at the crossroads of the Middle East.

One guy that was born in this general area comes to mind when the Neanderthal thing comes up. He is at least as dumb as a caveman. Just listen to his economic ideas.


6 posted on 07/19/2011 12:37:34 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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There’s a whole lot of conclusions one can come to about that, and most of them are not very politically-correct...

I read the article and had the same thoughts...

7 posted on 07/19/2011 1:12:21 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: djf

The crucible may have been the Ice Age..


8 posted on 07/19/2011 1:18:04 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Beowulf9; shibumi; Salamander

“Neanderthals possessed the gene for language and had sophisticated music,...”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huju5oN7Xvo

I dig it.


9 posted on 07/19/2011 1:18:59 AM PDT by Semper Mark (Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
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To: shibumi; Salamander

More “sophisticated music”...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgHM98rfE28&NR=1

Now I *really* dig it!


10 posted on 07/19/2011 1:39:26 AM PDT by Semper Mark (Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
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That would explain the wrap rage.
11 posted on 07/19/2011 1:46:57 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper ("Don't Call My Bluff")
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I always thought I was a little hairy for a female.


12 posted on 07/19/2011 1:56:33 AM PDT by beaversmom
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“You may be part Neanderthal”

My wife tells me that whenever I “cook” a steak just enough to get rid of the moo.

;^)


13 posted on 07/19/2011 1:58:46 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport Muslims. Nuke Mecca. Death to Islam. Freedom for mankind.")
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This article is sure to raise many a unibrow.


14 posted on 07/19/2011 2:13:19 AM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: Beowulf9
In some it is more apparent than in others.


If this is true, can we stop harping on how the Neanderthal were too stupid to survive? Apparently they did, and were able to keep it a secret.
15 posted on 07/19/2011 3:51:49 AM PDT by jmcenanly ( "We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him." -Samuel)
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Neanderthals possessed the gene for language and had sophisticated music, art and tool craftsmanship skills, so they must have not been all that unattractive to modern humans at the time

Guitar-playing, smooth-talking neanderthal, I must have you!

16 posted on 07/19/2011 4:05:58 AM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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The Neanderthal was an advbanced ape and his dna was halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee. We could no more interbreed with neanderthals than we could with dogs or cats.


17 posted on 07/19/2011 4:21:15 AM PDT by varmintman
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We can believe the “scientists” (”You May Be Part Neandertha”l) or we can choose to believe the Creator of man, who has never been known to lie:

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”


18 posted on 07/19/2011 4:54:48 AM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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Modern man would rather claim apes and Neanderthals as his ancestors than admit that God created man in His image.

This ludicrous “wisdom” is why “God holds them in derision,” as the Psalms say.


19 posted on 07/19/2011 5:12:00 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: varmintman
The Neanderthal was an advbanced ape and his dna was halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee.
Check the copyright date of your reference material. You would be well served to try to find something newer than 1850 on which to base your opinions.
20 posted on 07/19/2011 5:14:13 AM PDT by Johnny B.
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