Ancient DNA Reveals Neandertals With Red Hair, Fair Complexions

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

[domenad]

Yes, they're called Irish people.

Kidding! I'm kidding!

[RichInOC]

Do a DNA test on Dan Dierdorf. I’m just sayin’.

[alloysteel]

Ginger kids.

Like the ones that Eric Cartman was trying to exterminate on South Park.

[Coyoteman]

Those folks at the Max Planck Institute have been doing some really groundbreaking ancient DNA research!

Good stuff.

[xJones]

Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!.

[Stepan12]

But she is Italian

[Marysecretary]

It was those darn vikings, raping and pillaging Ireland and France and neandertal country.

[Gumption]

There have been some very prominent Gingers in history such as Ron Howard, Carrot Top and ... ummmm Ron Howard.

[Repeal The 17th]

I think this is not a new idea.
I think I have read this many years ago.

[LiteKeeper]

Members of the species Homo Sapien have red hair;
Neanderthals are Homo Sapiens, from all of the research that I have seen;
Therefore, it is not surprising to find out that Neanderthals had (have?) red hair.

[jmcenanly]

Aside from being about Neanderthals, this is old news. The above picture of recreation of a Neanderthal child found in is from a Polish blog dated November 16, 2006. For those of you fluent in Polish, here is the link

http://migg.wordpress.com/2006/11/16/neandertalczyk-powraca/

For those of you who do not read Polish, here is an Earlier Scince blog from July 5, 2005 featuring the same child

http://scithought.blogspot.com/2005/07/building-neanderthal.html

[brytlea]

How about Eric the Red?
susie

[Coyoteman]

Members of the species Homo Sapien have red hair;
Neanderthals are Homo Sapiens, from all of the research that I have seen;
Therefore, it is not surprising to find out that Neanderthals had (have?) red hair.

Perhaps you should study some of the science websites, instead of just creationist sites.

There is an ongoing debate in science as to whether Neanderthal should be classified as Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.

So far the DNA research suggests the former, as does the article at the beginning of this thread.

[brytlea]

That picture actually looks like a girl I knew when I was a kid. Weird.
susie

[brytlea]

Is it my imagination, or do the pictures of neandertals today look more like us than they did years ago? I wonder if this is based on new evidence or what?
susie

[Coyoteman]

Is it my imagination, or do the pictures of neandertals today look more like us than they did years ago? I wonder if this is based on new evidence or what?
susie

I think you're right.

Early drawings of Neanderthal depicted a slouched-over, crude individual largely because the first Neanderthal found was suffering from severe arthritis. This image got into the popular literature and supported the "cave man" image for a century.

It is only in the last decades that this incorrect portrayal in the popular literature is being corrected.

[jmcenanly]

New evidence and better forensic modeling. The ‘ugly little boy’ in my previous post was created by the same techniques used to put a faces on murder victims.

[Inyo-Mono]

It is not your imagination. Anthropologists are getting as PC as everyone else and recently there has been a push to show them as more human, though I doubt they really were. I think if one were to encounter a Neanderthal alive today they would run from it screaming, feeling that they had seen a Bigfoot type creature.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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