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Here's What Happened When Neanderthals And Ancient Humans Hooked Up 80,000 Years Ago
BI ^ | 1-29-2014 | Dina Spector

Posted on 01/29/2014 3:14:52 PM PST by blam

Here's What Happened When Neanderthals And Ancient Humans Hooked Up 80,000 Years Ago

Dina Spector
Jan. 29, 2014, 1:49 PM

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Neanderthal REUTERS/Nikola Solic

Hyperrealistic face of a neanderthal male is displayed in a cave in the new Neanderthal Museum in the northern Croatian town of Krapina February 25, 2010

By comparing the Neanderthal genome to modern human DNA, the authors of two new studies, both published on Wednesday, show how DNA that humans have inherited from breeding with Neanderthals has shaped us.

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and their sister lineage, Denisovans, descended from a common ancestor. The ancestors of modern humans broke off from this single branch more than 500,000 years ago. The Neanderthals split from the Denisovans some time later. The Neanderthals formed their own lineage that lived in Europe and Asia from around 200,000 years ago to 30,000 years ago. There's also a period when scientists believe that Neanderthals and ancient humans overlapped and interbred.

Researchers from Harvard Medical School, who published their findings in Nature, previously showed that the ancestors of modern humans interbred with Neanderthals between 80,000 years ago and 40,000 years ago, before Neanderthals went extinct.

Any given person of European or Asian descent owes at least 1% of their DNA to the Neanderthal genome.

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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: dna; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
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I post this while (still) stranded at home from a global warming ice blizzard that turned the beaches of NW Florida & Alabama white with ice and snow.
1 posted on 01/29/2014 3:14:52 PM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv
Another version of the same story:

Fossils of Neanderthal DNA clump in human genome

2 posted on 01/29/2014 3:17:02 PM PST by blam
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To: blam
Thag abides...


3 posted on 01/29/2014 3:21:09 PM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: blam
Wait, I thought that they traced the Neanderthals DMA to DemocRATS
4 posted on 01/29/2014 3:21:54 PM PST by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: blam

I wonder why the physically stronger neanderthals became extinct. That is hard to believe since modern humans 70-80 thousand years ago did not possess good weapons to overpower neanderthals. More likely the two races mixed and became undiscernible. I am convinced of this because I have run across so many people who act and look like neanderthals.


5 posted on 01/29/2014 3:22:05 PM PST by entropy12 (If you did not vote, you helped elect the community organizer from south side of Chicago.)
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To: blam
I question whether Neanderthals actually went extinct after my visit to a fairly remote area in the middle of France about five years ago.

Some of the ugliest people, with such grotesque facial features, I've ever seen in my life. Not just one or two, but dozens of 'em, walking upright, clothed, and without clubs, they certainly had the stereotypical caveman, kinda sorta Marice Tillet look spread across the face.

6 posted on 01/29/2014 3:23:48 PM PST by Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness (Eenie meanie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak....)
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Here's What Happened When Neanderthals And Ancient Humans Hooked Up 80,000 Years Ago

"So she was all, like... oh, you're such a Neanderthal..."

"So I get right in her face, you know? So what does that make you, huh? End of argument. Get snippy with me, Uuh!"

7 posted on 01/29/2014 3:23:58 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: blam

Jimmy Castor Bunch knew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlRXQEA0yj0


8 posted on 01/29/2014 3:24:02 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: entropy12
I wonder why the physically stronger neanderthals became extinct.
Income inequality. Globull Warming. Racism.
What difference does in make now?
9 posted on 01/29/2014 3:26:18 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: entropy12

Looks like BRAIN trumps BRAWN!


10 posted on 01/29/2014 3:26:28 PM PST by Renegade
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To: blam
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11 posted on 01/29/2014 3:26:41 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: blam

My ancestors, the Neanderthals!


12 posted on 01/29/2014 3:27:56 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: blam
Hyperrealistic face of a neanderthal male is displayed …


13 posted on 01/29/2014 3:29:02 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Sirius Lee

The Dude!!!!

If there were only two choices between Barry and “The Dude”...would you abide or let the little Lebowski Achievers take office as they are now?


14 posted on 01/29/2014 3:29:37 PM PST by BCW (Salva reipublicae)
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To: entropy12

It’s total conjecture. I was wondering if the new Pack mentality of the emerging homo sapiens lead to them wiping out the Neanderthals.

It probably started with a form of the punching game, but with prehistoric rules.


15 posted on 01/29/2014 3:33:53 PM PST by Usagi_yo
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To: BCW

The Dude for POTUS and Walter for Sec Def.


16 posted on 01/29/2014 3:36:20 PM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: blam

Looks like we are reverting back to Neanderthals.


17 posted on 01/29/2014 3:36:22 PM PST by Average Al
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To: blam
We had significant snow just south of Birmingham in '66 or so.

The "locals" had real issues with getting around.

18 posted on 01/29/2014 3:40:13 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: blam

19 posted on 01/29/2014 3:41:36 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: entropy12
I wonder why the physically stronger neanderthals became extinct.

Homosexuality?


20 posted on 01/29/2014 3:43:12 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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