Posted on 09/14/2015 5:01:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
They are one of our closest human relatives and dominated Europe and much of Asia for hundreds of thousands of years, but Neanderthals may be far older than previously thought.
A new study by geneticists has revealed a collection of fossilised bones discovered in a cave in northern Spain belonged to an early member of the Neanderthal family.
It is the oldest partial genome from early human fossils ever to be sequenced and pushes back the date for the origins of the Neanderthal branch of our evolutionary tree by up to 300,000 years....
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I’m beginning to realize that I’m twice as old as I thought I was too.
I thought Bernie Sanders looked older than he claims he is!
Still think carbon dating is highly inaccurate. Way too many zeroes on the ages, they need to take off two or so.
Redheads. The souls they steal give them longevity.
The assumption is that time has been constant throughout the ages.
This Neanderthal is twice as old as the Homo Sapiens females he is sexually attracted to.
This is not carbon dating. It is dating by using the number of changes in the DNA.
Lots of assumptions, the primary on that changes in the DNA sequences are aquired at a fairly constant rate, in separate species.
There goes that monkey thing.
If you hadn't heard Michael Savage mocking Bernie today it's worth a listen. Comedy gold.
If one is wrong...they're all wrong.
Redheads do not steal souls. The souls are given to them.
But it was settled Science.
When i eas on school neandethal man was in the chain of human evolution!
When I was in school neandethal man was in the chain of human evolution!
So should we take them seriously the next time they tell us how old a fossil is?
I find it hard to believe knuckleheads were around that long! ;-)
Neanderthal was at its most advanced level of evolution. Its cranium, with a volume ranging from 1200 to 1700 cc, was in fact larger than that of Cro-Magnons (Paleolithic European Homo sapiens), and also 10% greater than that of modern humans in average. If brain size is any indication, Neanderthals could have been cleverer than us. But that’s not the whole story. Neanderthal’s skull had a lower vaulted prefrontal cortex than most modern humans, and it has been speculated that they would have had less good at decision making and moderating social behaviour. On the other hand, Neanderthals possessed a bigger occipital lobe, meaning that their visual abilities (including the distinction of details and colours) were certainly better than that of modern humans.
There are several genes influencing skin colour. Among them, the BNC2 gene, which influences saturation of skin colour and is responsible for freckling, was confirmed by Sankararaman et al. (2014) to have been come from Neanderthal As for the genes for light eyes, there is a relatively high likelihood that they were inherited from Neanderthals too,
thier stupidity could be a a misconsception
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