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When humans broke off sex with neanderthals
Fox News ^ | October 05, 2012 | Charles Choi

Posted on 10/05/2012 12:48:49 PM PDT by Sopater

Neanderthals apparently last interbred with the ancestors of today's Europeans after modern humans with advanced stone tools expanded out of Africa, researchers say. The last sex between Neanderthals and modern humans likely occurred as recently as 47,000 years ago, the researchers added.

Modern humans once shared the globe with now-departed human lineages, including the Neanderthals, our closest known extinct relatives. Neanderthals had been around for about 30,000 years when modern humans appeared in the fossil record about 200,000 years ago. Neanderthals disappeared about 30,000 year ago.

In 2010, scientists completed the first sequence of the Neanderthal genome using DNA extracted from fossils, and an examination of the genetic material suggested that modern humans' ancestors occasionally successfully interbred with Neanderthals. Recent estimates reveal that Neanderthal DNA makes up 1 percent to 4 percent of modern Eurasian genomes, perhaps endowing some people with the robust immune systems they enjoy today.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: evolution; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
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To: Sopater

I’m not sure I agree with the headline - I know a guy who dates a girl with a tatoo.


61 posted on 10/05/2012 2:16:25 PM PDT by BobL (You can live each day only once. You can waste a few, but don't waste too many.)
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To: I still care

I read something similar to that about 40 years ago, where a Rabbi scholar wrote that the “giants” meant the “hairy ones,” speculating that they were remnant Neanderthals.


62 posted on 10/05/2012 2:21:27 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

"It's not you , it's me..."
63 posted on 10/05/2012 2:24:56 PM PDT by Rebelbase (The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
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To: Alex Murphy
RIP, Mr. Adams.

Don't Panic.

64 posted on 10/05/2012 2:40:04 PM PDT by SargeK
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To: carlo3b

“Need more...BOOB BELT!”


65 posted on 10/05/2012 2:41:50 PM PDT by SargeK
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To: Sopater

Michelle did what?


66 posted on 10/05/2012 2:44:04 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Sopater
Must have been something they said...

Once you move to the other side of the elephant tracks, you just can't slum it and go back.

67 posted on 10/05/2012 2:44:43 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: I still care
Neanderthals , Nephilim, Multisylabic alliterations aside, it's still a plausible theory. Languages melt and morph over time.

Here's another one Canaan bush, cannabis.

68 posted on 10/05/2012 2:54:00 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: Sopater
when the last one died???
69 posted on 10/05/2012 3:07:03 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: wildbill
Males of our species and probably those of other Homo species prefer more feminine, rounder females. Homo Sapiens are more sleek and less angular than the other “Homos”. It would make sense for males of other Homo species to be attracted to our females. It would also make sense for males of our species to NOT be attracted to the rougher looking females of other species.

Females are naturally attracted to more angular, bigger boned males so it would make some sense for a greater percentage of our females to be attracted to neanderthals than our males. However, in those times females had less of a choice of who they mated with and force often determined who got with who.

Until humans developed better weapons, neanderthals were stronger and more likely to steal our women. Humans were far less likely to attack the bigger neanderthals for their women. Also, their women were less attractive to us and harder to control with force.

70 posted on 10/05/2012 3:24:50 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: Sopater
When humans broke off sex with neanderthals

If they did, why are there LIBERALS, SOCIALISTS and MARXISTS?

71 posted on 10/05/2012 3:26:47 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Yes, Obama, I had help with my business. MY CUSTOMERS!)
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To: ExCTCitizen
why are there LIBERALS, SOCIALISTS and MARXISTS?

It's "devilution"
72 posted on 10/05/2012 3:28:54 PM PDT by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: bunkerhill7


73 posted on 10/05/2012 3:45:39 PM PDT by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: Sopater
Pooh, not THAT long ago.




74 posted on 10/05/2012 4:12:52 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: Sopater

It had something to do with the first headache.


75 posted on 10/05/2012 4:16:27 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: SargeK

I can tell yir a Dirty ole man.. :)


76 posted on 10/05/2012 4:17:42 PM PDT by carlo3b (Less Government, more Fiber..)
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To: Sopater

——The last sex between Neanderthals and modern humans likely occurred as recently as 47,000 years ago,-——

Bull crap....it was 46,950 years ago..../ S

Having sex doesn’t matter...getting pregnant does...to extend your genes pool...

How can anyone with a straight face claim which people stopped having sex...


77 posted on 10/05/2012 4:47:19 PM PDT by Popman (In a place you only dream of Where your soul is always free)
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The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

in local libraries
"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]

78 posted on 10/05/2012 5:06:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Popman

Nope, it was a month ago....


79 posted on 10/05/2012 5:08:22 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain: Beef: its whats for dinner...........)
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To: Sopater

80 posted on 10/05/2012 5:13:57 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (The enemy of the American People? islam and the media)
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