HUMANS, NEANDERTHALS DID NOT HAVE BABIES
Who'd want to???
Posted on 08/17/2012 9:37:26 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Recent research strikes a blow to the theory that humans and Neanderthals interbred.
THE GIST Studies over the last two years suggest that Neanderthals vanished more than 30,000 years ago. This would mean that early humans and Neanderthals could not have interbred. enlarge
Over the last two years, several studies have suggested that Homo sapiens got it on with Neanderthals, an hominid who lived in parts of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East for up to 300,000 years but vanished more than 30,000 years ago.
The evidence for this comes from fossil DNA, which shows that on average Eurasians and Asians share between one and four per cent of their DNA with Neanderthals, but Africans almost none.
But a new study by scientists at Britain's University of Cambridge says the shared DNA came from a shared ancestor, not from "hybridization" or reproduction between the two hominid species.
Common ancestor It begins with a common ancestors of Neanderthals and H. sapiens who lived around half a million years ago in parts of Africa and Europe.
Around 300,000 to 350,000 years ago, the European population and the African population of this hominid became separated.
Living in genetic isolation, the European range evolved bit by bit into Neanderthals, while the African range eventually became H. sapiens, which expanded in waves out of Africa from around 60,000 to 70,000 years ago.
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“The cultural barrier was unbreachable. This is what a Neanderthal actually looked like: “
Looks like Moochelle when she’s mad.
i reckon it would depend upon how the erectus was...
Hmmm. Ever wonder how they communicated? Don't you find it puzzling that there is no recorded history or writings found older than 5000 years ago?
There's a lot of things that don't fit with "modern man" that old. As far as I know, it hasn't been validated by true scientific investigation (like Darwinism). The age and nature of these "fossils" if they turn out to actually be true fossils are questionable.
Yes, that claim is spurious, since they date Homo Sapiens remains to 100,000 years in the same areas that Neanderthals were living.
Then somewhere there’s got to be some giants running around!
If they're not here already, they will be soon, I believe, for God's final judgement on the earth before His glorious return.
Is that a club you’re carrying, or are you just happy to see me?
They communicated orally and did pictures. There are intricate cave paintings which are 40,800 years old found in Spain. Just because man did not learn to write until fairly recently does not mean they were not man. We did not learn how to fly until the early part of the last century..does not mean we are not human because we were not flaying 5000 years ago. does it?
There was a house foundation found in England that is 11,500 years old.
So why are there chimps still swinging from vines, yet supposedly humans evolved (and evolved and evolved...)?
Humans share DNA with chimps (95%), but also share it with cats (90%) and fruit flies and even bananas (50%).
Can't remember the exact reason but thinking we had a common ancestor but we split somewhere early along the line.
Humans did not evolve from chimpanzes.
Chimpanzee fossils are extremely rare (perhaps because they were limited to more damp econiches than our ancestors were), and what their ancestors looked like 5 million or so years ago remains a mystery along with how much they changed (evolved).
Since there are Modern Americans, why are there still Europeans?
No valid scientifically tested artifact has been validated to show “modern man” existed before 6000 years. The evidence is not only anemic, it’s non-existent. Maybe something else like dinosaurs or monkey-type creatures. But not “modern man.”
LOL!
Sure there is, the 11,500 year old house I told you about which was found in England and the tools found with 40,000 year old fossils...but it is a free world and you can continue to believe what you want.
Thanks! It is sort of complex - no wonder the journalist couldn’t make heads or tails of it! ;)
I think I went to Jr. High with the woman pictured - of course she didn’t carry a spear and had clothes on; but still!
That site keeps coming up. The assertion is from a guy named Danny Vendramini, a theater and film director with no scientific credentials, but who felt he could write a book about his theories after "researching more than 800 references".
“Although Neanderthals, at first sight so similar to modern humans, were once placed on the last rung before mankind, fossil DNA hints that they may not even be on the same ladder. Their mitrochondrial genes are quite distinct from our own. They were not the ancestors of human genes but followed a separate path. For mitrochondria at least, Neanderthals and ourselves split half a million years ago.”
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