Confirmed: Non-Africans found to be part-Neanderthal

CBS News ^ | July 18, 2011 2:22 PM | CBS News

[redreno]

Next time you're about to slam somebody for carrying on like a Neanderthal, think twice: You might be hitting close to home.

A new study published in the Molecular Biology and Evolution reports that people of non-African heritage carry a chromosome which originates from Neanderthals, offering evidence that the two populations interbred at a certain point in history.

[broken_arrow1]

Right, I always thought Al Sharpton was a more obviously advanced species.

[justa-hairyape]

You non-Africans just think you are Neanderthals, only the Scottish people have ever been found with Stone Balls ! And I am not kidding :>

Carved Stone Balls

[Winstons Julia]

That would be the question... wouldn’t it?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Hybrid vigor, bigger brains...the more enterprising, ambitious, fearless folk left Africa and became steel, while the Africans remained iron...

This could get interesting!

[Ken H]

When you've had Neanderthal, you've had it all.

[Betis70]

Say it loud, say it proud “I am Neaderthal!”

Hey hey, ho ho, knuckle-draggers have got to go.

[LibLieSlayer]

My wife and I knew this already! She accepted my Neanderthal genetics as the reason why I always club her in the head before I drag her into my cave. It only took her a week or so to recover after our first date! ;-)

LLS

[Domestic Church]

“...but some think that they might have consumed drugged foods.”

Must have been the moldy rye bread.

[right way right]

A new study a day keeps the morons at bay.

[Dogbert41]

this only means something if you believe we came from apes.

[ThanhPhero]

You are making some assumptions about Nenderthal behavior that are not supported. People just assume they acted like pure brutes because they were “cave men.” Actually early Homo Sapiens lived pretty much the same way. They made better tools, though.

[blam]

The Neanderthal Theory

[marsh2]

I have one thing to say - Men with hairy backs.

[davisfh]

"When you've had Neanderthal, you've had it all."

Thanks. I feel better already.

[gleeaikin]

It would be nice if the article said what physical characteristics this gene was supposed to influence. I have heard of the “ginger gene” which was supposed to convey red hair and coloring. Was this a different one?

[Pelham]

Where’s the fire?

[TheDingoAteMyBaby]

They way they explained these things in Sunday School was much simpler.

[Pharmboy]

It seems we could tell where the X chromosome piece might have come from in those 9% by looking at their mtDNA; if they share similar mtDNA, then it was one of our guys shtupping one of their females.

[IamConservative]

What we need now is legislation to support Neanderthal rights! /s