[Clara Lou]

This is really, really interesting. Thanks for posting it.

[xJones]

Decode's alternative proposal is that the flipped version was carried for many years in a different human lineage, one of the archaic populations that preceded the emergence of anatomically modern humans in Africa 150,000 years ago.

So that's what King Kong was wanting to do with the blonde!

[rbg81]

I guess this explains the falling European birth rate--Not!

[Domestic Church]

Pingaroo...

[BlazingArizona]

Researchers in Iceland have discovered a region in the human genome that, among Europeans, appears to promote fertility, and maybe longevity as well.

Though the region, a stretch of DNA on the 17th chromosome, occurs in people of all countries, it is much more common in Europeans, as if its effect is set off by something in the European environment.

Bordeaux.

[mikegi]

I don't see any evidence in this article that the inversion has anything to do with fertility. They don't even know why the inversion would affect fertility. I'd like to see how they removed confounding factors.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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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The problem that I have with their common ancestor theory is that they always seem to discount multiple seperate versions of teh same mutation. If a mutation that shifts a while segment of chromosomes can happen once, it could happen twice or more.

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