So I can blame the cavemen for my diabetes?
Posted on 01/29/2014 8:00:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
IT IS surprising what a little hanky-panky can do. A handful of sexual encounters between humans and Neanderthals made many of us what we are today, affecting both our appearance and our vulnerability to disease. But the genetic legacy left by the Neanderthals also highlights just how different we are from our sister species.
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... the adaptation took thousands of years to become universal. A third study published this week describes a DNA analysis of one person who lived in Stone Age Europe about 7000 years ago – 40,000 years after any Neanderthal interbreeding. His genes suggest his skin was dark (Nature, doi.org/q74). It may be that the Neanderthal keratin affected early Eurasians' hair instead, perhaps straightening it.
Not all of the Neanderthal genes are beneficial. Sankararaman and Reich found that our Neanderthal inheritance includes several genes that make us susceptible to diseases including type 2 diabetes, lupus and Crohn's disease.
Some of the genes, meanwhile, appear to have led to fertility problems. For instance, Sankararaman found that the X chromosome is almost devoid of Neanderthal DNA. This suggests that most Neanderthal DNA that wound up on the X chromosome made the bearer less fertile – a common occurrence when related but distinct species interbreed – and so it quickly disappeared from the human gene pool. “Neanderthal alleles were swept away,” says Sankararaman.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
And Will Ferrell.
Yeah, but would Laz hit it?
yeah laz would he is a gene e us
So I can blame the cavemen for my diabetes?
The article showed the Neanderthal with dark hair and BLUE eyes. THAT is European.
Neanderthal or Nephilim? That is the question.
You have little idea of the variety people “tap”, LOL.
“A handful of sexual encounters between humans and Neanderthals made many of us what we are today...”
You know, I really, REALLY try to take The High Road when it concerns my ex-husband, LOL! *SNORT*
all the decades of global warming science is pure lies, garbage.it’s getting cooler not warmer.
so I’m supposed to believe more science from these scientist idiots? lol don’t make me laugh
how much in gov grants are these morons getting?
all the decades of global warming science is pure lies, garbage.it’s getting cooler not warmer.
so I’m supposed to believe more science from these scientist idiots? lol don’t make me laugh
how much in gov grants are these morons getting?
This is all lies
cat wouldn't scratch it.
I doubt that much breeding took place between our ancestors and Neanderthal. They were too different from us in spite of the National Geographic interpretive reconstructions that make them look much like us.
PS: Whatever happened to the so called modern spelling: Neandertal, without the "h"?
"Hot tub, cold box of wine, some Kenny G mp3's and nature takes it's course!"
Amalek?
I got my ex a license plate frame that said “I still miss my ex...but my aim is improving”
She loved it...
Not that I believe in evolution, nor a separate human “species” call Neanderthals, however this reeks of left-wing reverse discrimination: “Look at those Europeans, how inferior they are, just a product of mutations...” in the same vain: “The Africans are the father’s and mothers of our race, the 1st humans”.
It’s all pseudo-science.
She doesn’t look like she’d take ‘no’ for an answer.
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