[Beowulf9]

[Lancey Howard]

"Ridiculous."

[djf]

Is this saying that the FoxP2 gene in Europeans is different than the FoxP2 in people of African descent?

There’s a whole lot of conclusions one can come to about that, and most of them are not very politically-correct...

[shibumi]

Yup!

And I know just which part of me it is.

(Wink-wink, nudge-nudge, say-no-more!)

[Lazlo in PA]

His team places the timing of such intimate contacts and family ties early on, probably at the crossroads of the Middle East.

One guy that was born in this general area comes to mind when the Neanderthal thing comes up. He is at least as dumb as a caveman. Just listen to his economic ideas.

[Semper Mark]

“Neanderthals possessed the gene for language and had sophisticated music,...”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huju5oN7Xvo

I dig it.

[Berlin_Freeper]

That would explain the wrap rage.

[beaversmom]

I always thought I was a little hairy for a female.

[elcid1970]

“You may be part Neanderthal”

My wife tells me that whenever I “cook” a steak just enough to get rid of the moo.

;^)

[equaviator]

This article is sure to raise many a unibrow.

[jmcenanly]

In some it is more apparent than in others.


If this is true, can we stop harping on how the Neanderthal were too stupid to survive? Apparently they did, and were able to keep it a secret.

[varmintman]

The Neanderthal was an advbanced ape and his dna was halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee. We could no more interbreed with neanderthals than we could with dogs or cats.

[Johnny B.]

I have a really funny book, called "Science Made Stupid", which includes a quiz called "Are You a Neanderthal?"

It included the following questions:

Can you pick up an apple with your foot? (1 point)

Do you usually eat apples by holding them in your foot? (5 points)

[mountainlion]

Let us see peer review.

[varmintman]

"There is little doubt that this haplotype is present because of mating with our ancestors and Neanderthals,"

Isn't that a bit like seeing Fords and Chevrolets both using tie rods and concluding that they interbred or that they were both originally built in the same factory?? I mean, isn't that ignoring the possibility of the same design idea being used more than once out of either sheer ignorance or outright refusal to consider any possibility other than your own???

[Humbug]

So....is the author saying that Fred Flintstone was really a Neanderthal?

Now the Wayouts, yes, them i could see. Not so much Fred though.

[martin_fierro]

You Who.

[redhead]

Redhead here, proudly claiming my Neanderthal genes.

[ExGeeEye]

I’m a Golgafrinchan, descendant of one of the survivors of the “B” Ark.

Would you like your fire fitted nasally?