Ancient DNA Reveals Neandertals With Red Hair, Fair Complexions

Science Magazine ^ | 2007-10-26 | Elizabeth Culotta

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

:-)

[jmcenanly]

Actually, I was referring to a story by Issac Asimov called The Ugly Little Boy which was about a Neanderthal child brought to the Present.

[xJones]

Is that gaelic for “Your an @$$hole?”

Nothing so crude, I'd never dream of it! Besides, "you're an a$$hole" should only be spoken in English to get the full effect.:)

Just click this link, scroll down to 'May the cat eat you and the devil eat the cat', and you can hear it in 3 different Gaelic accents. Don't ask me why they say that, these are the Irish, y'know.

[Lizavetta]

Have you seen what Carrot Top looks like lately?

Apparently he's now a devotee of makeup, barbells, and plastic surgery.

[brytlea]

Oh, sorry. Silly me!
susie

[ReignOfError]

It’s not a new hypothesis. What’s new is genetic evidence supporting it — before, it was a matterof inference based on the pigmentation of modern populations in the area.

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The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

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]

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GENOME
the autobiography of
a species in 23 chapters
by Matt Ridley
(from chap 9)

The different kind blood group you have determines your susceptibility to certain diseases. For example, people with A blood are less likely to get diarrhoea than people with B blood. People with O blood are more susceptible to getting diarrhoea than anybody else. People with AB blood are virtually immune to diarrhoea because of their resistance. Nobody really yet knows how AB genotype protects them from this disease. "Since people with the O blood are the most susceptible to the disease, shouldn't they die out according to natural selection?' you are probably asking. That is true but there are a couple of things that keep the O group alive and one of them is malaria. People with O blood are more resistant to malaria than other groups. Another thing is that the O group is less likely to get certain cancers. These benefits cancel out the negative effect that the O blood group has on the diarrhoea disease so, this balance has kept the group from disappearing.

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