One of the features that distinguishes modern humans (right) from Neandertals (left) is a globular shape of the braincase.
(Philipp Gunz (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0))
This whole thing sounds a little like Nazis measuring people’s heads.
One of the features that distinguishes modern humans (right) from Neanderthals (left) is a globular shape of the braincase.
(CNN)Humans have unusually globular (or round) skulls and brains compared to our ancient ancestors — including our closest extinct cousins the Neanderthals — and a new study provides a possible explanation as to why.
For the first time, an interdisciplinary team of scientists have identified two genes that affect the shape of the modern human’s skull — and they originate from Neanderthals.
“Billions of people living today carry a small fraction of Neanderthal genes in their genome — a distant echo of admixture when our ancestors left Africa and encountered Neanderthals,” said study author Philipp Gunz, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, via email.
These are typically humans with European ancestry stemming from interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern Europeans.
“By combining data from fossils, genetics and brain imaging we can learn something about evolutionary changes to brain development in our own species,” said Gunz.
The team used MRI scans to analyze the cranial shape of about 4,500 peoples’ brains before looking at their genomes to work out which fragments of Neanderthal DNA they carried. ...”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/health/neanderthal-skull-genes-scli-intl/index.html
Mine shows definite troglodyte DNA.
While I understand what they’re saying, they don’t take into account the moldability of the human skull during infancy.
The Flathead Indian tribe was named that because they engaged in the practice of “flattening” their skulls. It was done in infancy, by binding the skull.
These days, what I see most often are babies with the backs of their heads flattened since putting babies on their backs to sleep is promoted.
I always wondered why a person would vote democrat
Sounds like John Kerry is even more neanderthal than we thought.
Recent research has also shown Neanderthal tendencies in humans that have larger than normal ears. In addition, ear size can also affect IQ. It appears the larger the ear, the lower the IQ.
Elizabeth Warren is 1/1028 Neanderthal.
Every time I see James Clapper on TV, I think he would make a good dummy torpedo. Now I think he is actually a Neanderthal descendant.
Remember Neanderthal genes put man on the moon. Not sub-Saharan.
Phrenology is making a come back.
Lots of pictures and stuff but like global warming there is no proof.
Where does that put me on the scale?
One documentary I saw was QUITE interesting.
They tested the students in the class for the percentage of Neanderthal DNA.
What blew my mind: the three seriously HOT women, I mean smoking hot blonds and a dark redhead, had far and away the highest percentage.
I mean WTF?
Oh crap, my knuckles should be dragging the ground.
Conversely the Neandertal line has the mighty knobular shape of testes.
Hallelujah!
It’s just a European marker
Laz would probably have hitten it, were he alive then.
