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To: SeekAndFind

I’m sorry, but that’s just BS. Neanderthal DNA is generally described as being about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee, meaning that they were s species difference from us and not a racial difference. Aside from everything else that explains the previously enigmatic lack of any evidence of crossbreeding despite the two groups having lived in close proximity long enough that there should have been a lot of it; we could no more interbreed with neanderthals than we could with horses or cows.


5 posted on 05/13/2010 6:00:22 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946

If we are supposed to have some Neanderthal genes, why doesn’t their DNA sequence show some human (homo sapiens sapiens) genes?

How could it have just gone one way?


10 posted on 05/13/2010 6:06:35 PM PDT by squarebarb
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To: wendy1946

I just read an article several days ago that stated that they have found Neanderthal DNA in modern humans.


11 posted on 05/13/2010 6:08:33 PM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: wendy1946

Several recent articles with evidence that humans and Neanderthals did interbreed. But, only those homo sapiens that migrated out of Africa interbred:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/neanderthal/index?tab=articles


30 posted on 05/13/2010 7:24:40 PM PDT by Will88
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To: wendy1946
I’m sorry, but that’s just BS. Neanderthal DNA is generally described as being about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee...

No...I'M sorry...sorry that you keep posting this ridiculous trash in thread after thread. When asked for sources, you simply ignore. I'm sure if we check your DNA it will show "troll."

54 posted on 05/15/2010 3:34:32 PM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: wendy1946; All

“Neanderthal DNA is generally described as being about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee.”

Did you even bother to read the rest of the article? After examining 12,000 protein gene sequences in 50 living humans and one Neanderthal, they found only 88 differences and speculate that with 500 living humans and some other Neanderthal samples the differences might approach zero. The number of differences for chimps was far, far greater. Furthermore, in 50 years of following anthropology studies and discoveries, and taking some courses as well, I have NEVER heard that Neanderthal were halfway between us and chimps.


92 posted on 05/18/2010 11:17:23 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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