Posted on 09/29/2018 12:06:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“basque people and the possibility they have a plethora of Neanderthal genes...”
The majority of my ancestors were Spanish Basques from the Pyrenees-typical Basque rebels, they got the hell out of Dodge-came to the New World in the mid 16th and early 17th centuries-so that subject is of particular interest to me and several other family members-I’m one of the redheads with green/gray eyes in the family-red hair and light eyes are believed by some in the scientific community to have been common among Neanderthals. Some of us would gladly do the DNA tracking if there were a way to keep it out of places where it could be used in a bad way-places like 23 and Me, Ancestry.com etc...
"Preferences" are something you can talk about.
Animals don't have "preferences" - they can't say what they would prefer.
Animals of the same sex, though, do sometimes have sex, or something like it.
It would be foolish to call animals gay or homosexual, but behavior of that sort has been seen in animals, even in the wild.
I see what you did there.
Neanderthal genes seem to be correlated with higher, not lower intelligence, which suggests that they were mostly Republican. They also hunted and ate red meat, which clinches the deal.
The author points to a time when understanding religion was a requirement for being a superior being.
That made me chuckle. Being able to “understand” what a group of old wise men want you to believe is pretty much the definition of a stupid mind.
Like I indicated, as in captivity with the lack of an opposite sex, animals can freak out with each other (as Big Joe from Kelly’s Heroes would put it). But will they do that in the wild with the opposite sex present? Not that I’ve heard. Homosexuality is an aberration at best, no more intended by nature or evolution than are mutations. And like a mutation, has no purpose, and is with very rare exception harmful.
Sasquatch is a human also, but you wouldn’t know it to look at her.
Wow — looks like Hubs’ side of the family.
Look up bonobo chimpanzees.
I was disappointed when I recently learned that the Basque settlers’ yodeling in “Thunder in the Sun” was not a form of actual communication complete with town names, directions, etc. Oh, well.
But is it true that most of Spain’s small arms industry is located in the Basque country? Many Spanish pistols & shotguns have distinctly Basque tradenames; I own several.
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Maimonides (1135-1204 A.D.) says in “A Guide for the Perplexed” that before Adam and Eve a race of beings virtually indistinguishable from humans existed. The Jews called them “the people of the field.” What made them less than human, Maimonides said, was that they had no soul. When God breathed a soul into Adam and Eve they became the first true humans.
Thanks fmdj. It's interesting to see some foot-dragging has come to an end, but it's really just some more saddling on something, then projecting behavior onto someone else. it's just a matter of some money to test one's own DNA and compare it with archaic DNA. Most living people show some percentage came from Neandertal.
I’ve never researched that-my family name is one of the common Spanish Basque ones starting with “Z”-and it has been my observation the the legacy of Rome survives in our Latin tempers-that and a genetic predisposition to being an unrepentant rebel and authority fighter-Basques don’t seem to be happy with any government...
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