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Why tiny Neanderthal brains are now growing in petri dishes
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| June 27, 2018
| by Laura Geggel
Posted on 06/27/2018 1:36:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Scientists hope the pea-sized blobs can help explain the rise of modern humans.
Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago, but thanks to cutting-edge science, there is now a lab in California that has petri dishes filled with pea-sized versions of the cavemen's brains.
Why are researchers cultivating and studying these minibrains? The reason, they say, is that these small neural lumps may reveal why Neanderthals died out and Homo sapiens went on to conquer much of the planet.
"Neanderthals are fascinating because they shared Earth with us, and there is now genetic evidence we actually bred with them," study leader Alysson Muotri, director of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Stem Cell Program.
Perhaps genetic differences between Neanderthal and human brains explain their demise and our success, Muotri said. In other words, it's possible that humans achieved great technological advancements because we have sophisticated neural networks, while Neanderthals didn't.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; science
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They were assimilated.......................
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06/27/2018 1:38:51 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
To: Red Badger
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06/27/2018 1:39:15 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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06/27/2018 1:40:07 PM PDT
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Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Army Air Corps
Resistance was fruitful...................
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posted on
06/27/2018 1:41:38 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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06/27/2018 1:43:19 PM PDT
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laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Blacks actually have very little Neaderthal DNA in them.
It’s mostly Europeans and Middle East.
And there is zero evidence Neaderthals were less intelligent than homo sapien sapiens. To the contrary, their brains were larger.
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06/27/2018 1:44:15 PM PDT
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Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Slow Joe can't wait for his new brain.
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06/27/2018 1:46:53 PM PDT
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Neanderthals still exist, but they are now referred to as libs.
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06/27/2018 1:47:41 PM PDT
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Gator113
( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
To: Biggirl
I completely agree with what you didn’t say.
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06/27/2018 1:48:31 PM PDT
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Gator113
( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
To: Red Badger
They were assimilated................. Resistance was futile, and fertile.
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06/27/2018 1:49:11 PM PDT
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ASA Vet
(Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
To: Gator113
After seeing Rep. Maxine I had no choice. Otherwise it would need to come down.
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06/27/2018 1:50:56 PM PDT
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Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
What could POSSIBLY go wrong???😲
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06/27/2018 1:52:09 PM PDT
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6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: ASA Vet
......and fun!.....................
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06/27/2018 1:52:22 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
To: Biggirl
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06/27/2018 1:55:19 PM PDT
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Gator113
( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
To: 6ppc
What could POSSIBLY go wrong???😲 ~~~ Right! Because those clever Neanderthals had powerfully psychic brains with all sorts of abilities of perception and kinetics that could work without their bodies, but they never could figure out how to grow their brains without bodies, so they hatched an ingenious plan to go extinct and let those silly meddling homo sapiens sapiens learn science and medicine well enough to grow neanderthal brains in petri dishes so they could be free. All according to plan
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06/27/2018 1:57:01 PM PDT
by
z3n
But are the legal Neanderthals, or were they smuggled across the border? That’s the really important question
To: Jewbacca
They were likely smart enough to live and thrive alone or in small familial groups which unfortunately left them vulnerable to being killed off by the larger tribes of homosapiens that came along.
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06/27/2018 2:14:09 PM PDT
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Teflonic
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Because the Democrats are running out of stupid enough people?
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06/27/2018 2:14:09 PM PDT
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DoughtyOne
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