[vannrox]

An interesting read.

[r9etb]

27.1 ±12.2 substitutions from the African lineage

That's got to be a typo. +/-2.2 would be much more in-family with the other lineages. Unless African DNA is inherently more diverse than non-African, which I have to doubt.

[Nitro]

What did one Neandertal man say to the other?

She's a drag!

[Focault's Pendulum]

The authors suggest that the Neanderthals went extinct without contribution to the present mtDNA of modern humans.

Not true. My ex wife's family is still alive.

[Whitebread]

Features
Is it true about Jackie and Neanderthal man?
David Stenhouse

04/22/2001
Sunday Times - London
News International
1GW
12
(Copyright Times Newspapers Ltd, 2001)

ONLY a week after Anne Robinson was let off for pouring scorn on the Welsh, another group of oppressed Celts have come in for a pasting. Scientists at Oxford University have let rip at Scotland's most oppressed minority - the ginger. Experts at the Institute of Molecular Medicine have confirmed the views of playground bullies and declared that carrot-tops are genetic throwbacks, descended from Neanderthal man. The Neanderthals were aggressive thugs who hung about Europe 50,000 years ago. It had been assumed their genes had all died out as clever homo sapiens took over their turf. But now scientists believe that Neanderthal genes live on in those who have red hair.

About 40% of Scots have ginger genes and 10% have red hair. But though Scotland's redheads haven't necessarily inherited the sloping brows and dragging knuckles of their great great great-grandpas, the Oxford scientists maintain that the flame-haired have inherited a fiery temper and tendency to be unruly. But only a few months ago another set of scientists were explaining that ferrous follicles were a genetic gift, ensuring redheads were prized above all others. At the time a scientist declared "red hair has been a sign of beauty for generations". This must come as a consolation to redheads who have hidden their shining glory under such euphemisms as "russet", "auburn" and "flame". And what of Archie MacPherson, Jackie Bird, and Charles Kennedy, apparently peace-loving, but bedecked with Irn-Bru colouring? How will their public profile be affected by news that the heart of savage man beats within them?

[Focault's Pendulum]

And it is an interesting read.

[Blood of Tyrants]

So the jist of it is that Neanderthals were not (or are much less likely to be) ancestors of modern man? Do you think that Neanderthal man will now be taken off the monkey-to-man evolution chart so as not to deceive?

[pabianice]

This is super cool! I got my BA in Anthro (human evolution subspercialty). The entire human tree has been rewritten in the intervening 30 years.

[brooklin]

I think they got these samples from my neighbor.

[nightdriver]

"The authors suggest that the Neanderthals went extinct without contribution to the present mtDNA of modern humans."

The Bible gives a brief glimpse into the past where man existed before Adam. This tends to validate it.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Mark Twain wrote about the French long before the French added the art of appeasement to their highly developed art of cuisine: "There is nothing lower than the human race -- except the French." He added: "The French are the connecting link between man & the monkey."

[SunkenCiv]

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