75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman's Facial Reconstruction Sheds New Light on Our Archaic Human Ancestors

The Debrief ^ | May 3, 2024 | CHRISSY NEWTON

[blam]

I'm watching a Netflix special on Neanderthals right now. Presently they're covering the cave where this woman was found.

So far, so good.

[Tennessee Nana]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

shes supposed to look like Rachel Welch

[Jane Long]

I know...I was shocked Laz hadn’t yet been pinged, before my #30 post.. 😂

[Mr. Blond]

Europeans have about 3% Neanderthal DNA. Asians have some Denisovan DNA. Africans have neither. Africans also have up to 20% DNA from archaic hominids that are not found in Europeans.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. They are among our many ancestors.

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]

[SunkenCiv]

Most people carry Neandertal genes, in about a slightly greater amount as they carry genes passed down from about 46 of their great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents.

[null and void]

Eyes are too small when compared to the eye sockets. I’m guessing larger eyes=ability to gather more light=creatures of the night.

Night hunting and gathering allowed them to live side by side with homo sapiens and have some interbreeding without excessive competition.

Until it didn’t...

[null and void]

The lack of intermediary forms suggests no overlaps with humans.

A few percent Neanderthal DNA in modern humans suggests intimate overlap with humans.

[null and void]

But interbreeding between two species, even supposedly close ones, results in a creature that is sterile.

USUALLY, but not always, there are a few, very few, fertile mules.

[Reily]

All it takes is a few and time with repetition.

[null and void]

We agree on eye size, but not much else.

[Jonty30]

I don’t necessarily consider shared DNA to be proof of interbreeding. We share about 75% of our DNA with mushrooms. Are you suggesting that we got it on with a fungi at one time?

[null and void]

Would Laz hit it?

Yes.

DUH.

[null and void]

Klinger would never get a Section 8 in today’s Army.

A promotion maybe...

[ganeemead]

Neanderthal DNA is roughly halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee and a bit closer to that of the chimp. You have to start by asking yourself what youd expect such a creature to look like; a slightly different human is simply the wrong answer.

[null and void]

Either carbon dating is not accurate, or there is the “gap theory”, with Satan trying to create humanity, and failing spectacularly.

Within limits radiocarbon dating is fairly accurate.

Gap theory, Satan trying to create humanity, and failing spectacularly? Interesting.

Perhaps not so spectacularly.

On the average, modern humans have 2-3% Neanderthal DNA.

On the average.

Some more, some much more. Does much more correlate with being a sociopath or politician?

Does everyone have some Neanderthal DNA?

If so, are we all damned under a 'single Neanderthal gene rule', the equivalent of the old 'one drop rule'?

Or are there 'pureblood' homo sapiens?

Were the intermarried royal bloodlines an attempt to preserve a pure blood line or preserve a high Neaderthal lineage?

Several testable hypotheses there...

[null and void]

Name him ping him...

[ThanhPhero]

Cro Magnon had features of both.

[ThanhPhero]

Police reconstructions often match pretty closely the faces of photographs of the people when alive. And no the photos were not available to make the reconstruction. The photos were located once ID had been made from the reconstruction.

[ThanhPhero]

Well as it says, we all have a tad of Neanderthal DNA thus there was not sterile interbreeding and I do think that two “different” species that interbreed successfully are by that feature a single species.