Posted on 02/28/2015 7:20:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Dogs are humanity’s oldest friends, renowned for their loyalty and abilities to guard, hunt and chase. But modern humans may owe even more to them than we previously realised. We may have to thank them for helping us eradicate our caveman rivals, the Neanderthals.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Considering everyone has between 1 to 3 percent Neanderthal DNA, it doesn’t seem as if we really got rid of the Neanderthals at all. It’s also difficult to argue that they’re even a separate species from us, since we interbred with no problems whatsoever. It be better to call them “homosapien neanderthalensis”.
ARF! Now that is funny!
What dog?
help me out...I’m still not seeing a dog....
Probably a purebread.
“I said mole’...not mole”
You mean the Mexican condiment?
Yes...my sad attempt at word play...
The dog is a cabdriver. He’s there, just get Kim Kardashian’s ‘assets’ out of your mind. Not an easy task, I grant you.
Wait...there is a car in the picture too?
Seems it was also the end of the mamouths!
Thanks. I was gonna say....
As opposed to Homo sapiens sapiens.
Before I knew what JR’s where all about, I tried to take mine from an unfinished mole dig....cost me both pant legs,
About the same as trying to kick a blue heeler.
This obviously preceeded “dancing” with wolves and certainly, “****ing” with wolves. Kevin Costner, eat your heart out.
Didn’t the German PhD that hypothesized the intermingling of the Neanderthals and humans just get exposed as a complete liar?
Best laugh I’ve had all week!
bullshot
There are studies that suggest that the distribution of the Neanderthal genes to sections of the genome for disease resistance and a few other sections while purged from the rest of the genome suggests the opposite. That there were hybrids but less fertile than average, but the disease resistance their descendants had more than offset the lower fertility.
The lack of Neanderthal mitrochondria, though, may mean that it was all one way genetic interchange - rape by Neanderthals of human women, the male hybrids killed, females kept to increase the human tribe’s numbers. Such a scenario also explains the lack of Neanderthal Y chromosomes in the human population.
History, it’s all just dirt and speculation.
For those of us snowbound in southern Ohio, That ain’t right. My local biker bar got burned downed, What’s an alpha male too do now, lol.
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