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Neanderthals may have interbred with humans
Nature News ^ | 4-20-10 | Rex Dalton

Posted on 04/22/2010 5:12:55 AM PDT by Pharmboy

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To: Pharmboy

Ugly Bump.

41 posted on 04/22/2010 6:39:20 AM PDT by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org)
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To: Pharmboy

Well, that certainly clears up where Al Franken and Keith Obermann came from!


42 posted on 04/22/2010 6:40:11 AM PDT by paul in cape
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To: central_va

You see faces like that at heavy-metal rock concerts.


43 posted on 04/22/2010 6:40:16 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism, Communism - it's all shades of black.)
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To: SIDENET

The species all get prettier at closing time.


44 posted on 04/22/2010 6:40:23 AM PDT by csmusaret (If it sounds like Marx and acts like Stalin, it must be Obama!)
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To: Pharmboy
The best way to explain that variation was if there were two periods of interbreeding between humans and an archaic species, such as Homo neanderthalensis or H. heidelbergensis.

When you start with a flawed theory, you are always having to look for the "best way" to explain the obvious, things that always seem to "surprise" you, but never enough so you wonder why you could be so "surprised" so often at the evidence not matching up with what the theory predicts.

45 posted on 04/22/2010 6:47:55 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: csmusaret
Ha! Good one...

Wasn't that sung by Mickey Gilleyanthropus??

46 posted on 04/22/2010 7:08:00 AM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: Pharmboy

I was either him or his close relative Jerry L Lewiserectus.


47 posted on 04/22/2010 7:14:19 AM PDT by csmusaret (If it sounds like Marx and acts like Stalin, it must be Obama!)
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To: csmusaret

It.


48 posted on 04/22/2010 7:15:12 AM PDT by csmusaret (If it sounds like Marx and acts like Stalin, it must be Obama!)
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To: JaguarXKE

You beat me to it.


49 posted on 04/22/2010 7:22:17 AM PDT by dools007
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To: Pharmboy; Lazamataz; JRios1968; Old Sarge

Of course
Laz would've
hit it!

50 posted on 04/22/2010 7:24:45 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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“The ancient mitochondrial DNA came from a piece of finger bone, which the groups haven’t identified by species. It could be Neanderthal, a new Homo species or some other archaic form — like H. erectus, who spread to Oceania by 1.8 million years ago.”

Let me see... they don’t know the species of the original DNA but they draw broad sweeping conclusions. LOL


51 posted on 04/22/2010 7:25:29 AM PDT by Suz in AZ
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To: Suz in AZ

Well, I guess the particular combo of genes is enough to give them that info. After all, it couldn’t be a hippo or an alligator with those genes...


52 posted on 04/22/2010 7:37:17 AM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: Pharmboy

You mean like Ted Danson and Whoopi Goldberg?


53 posted on 04/22/2010 11:35:18 AM PDT by paddles
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Thanks Pharmboy!
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]
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54 posted on 04/22/2010 3:43:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: martin_fierro

[singing] swing low, sweet chariot...


55 posted on 04/22/2010 3:54:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Dallas59

Who is the dude in the dress?


56 posted on 04/22/2010 3:55:51 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Who could resist this?


57 posted on 04/22/2010 4:20:12 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Salamander; Slings and Arrows; Markos33; JoeProBono
"Neanderthals may have interbred with humans"



Ya think?

58 posted on 04/22/2010 4:26:39 PM PDT by shibumi (Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Probably because the latest research says they were humans!


59 posted on 04/22/2010 7:54:18 PM PDT by LiteKeeper ("It's the peoples' seat!")
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To: LiteKeeper

:’)


60 posted on 04/22/2010 8:31:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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