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Scientists map mitochondrial DNA of prehistoric Neanderthal
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| Aug 7, 2008
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Posted on 08/07/2008 12:37:19 PM PDT by decimon
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The head bone's connected to the no-neck bone...
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posted on
08/07/2008 12:37:20 PM PDT
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decimon
To: blam; SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/07/2008 12:38:34 PM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon
So now we’ll know if red hair really did come from Neanderthals.
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posted on
08/07/2008 12:40:10 PM PDT
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Bon mots
To: decimon
"Researchers said the new genetic sequencing reveals that Neanderthals had fewer evolutionary changes than Homo Sapiens, which may have made natural selection less effective." Hmmm... One would hope, but has anyone mapped the Democratic genome and compared it to Neanderthals? I suspect some disturbing similarities may emerge. ;-)
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08/07/2008 12:44:47 PM PDT
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Desron13
(If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
To: Bon mots
Research suggests that the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and humans lived about 660,000 years ago. Modern humans and neanderthals apparently did not interbreed. I went into the issue thinking that there probably was some relationship, judging by the body type of certain regions, but the evidence is pretty conclusive. Neanderthals left Africa half a million years before modern humans, and when Cro Magnons got to Europe, they did not interbreed. Whether they interacted, we don't know, and maybe never will, but my bet is that there were territorial battles that our kind won, and which led to Neanderthals' ultimate demise.
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08/07/2008 12:47:53 PM PDT
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Defiant
(Democrats complained that the war was for oil. Now they make war ON oil.)
To: Desron13
In an’ out before the obligatory Helen Thomas photo...
To: Desron13
Hmmm... One would hope, but has anyone mapped the Democratic genome and compared it to Neanderthals? I suspect some disturbing similarities may emerge. ;-) Well, there's evolution and there's revolution.
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posted on
08/07/2008 12:47:54 PM PDT
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decimon
To: epluribus_2
In an out before the obligatory Helen Thomas photo...May we be spared.
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08/07/2008 12:48:40 PM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon
Scientists map mitochondrial DNA of prehistoric Neanderthal What other (than prehistoric) kinds of neanderthals were there??
To: decimon
Theoretically then they could identify the modern day straight line female descendant since the mitochondrial DNA is passed down exclusively by the mother.
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posted on
08/07/2008 12:52:44 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(College kid: "Do you have a minute for Obama?" NVA: "Not now or ever.")
To: damondonion
What other (than prehistoric) kinds of neanderthals were there?? An excellent question for which I have not an adequate answer.
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posted on
08/07/2008 1:00:04 PM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon
IBTGC ... (In Before The Geico Commercial)
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posted on
08/07/2008 1:13:41 PM PDT
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TexGuy
(If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
To: TexGuy
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posted on
08/07/2008 1:33:34 PM PDT
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decimon
To: Defiant
If two animals can breed then they are the same species. If they say Neanderthal and man interbreed then they are saying Neanderthals WERE men.
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08/07/2008 1:43:15 PM PDT
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DManA
To: DManA
Men the breed not the sex (smart asses)
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08/07/2008 1:44:12 PM PDT
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DManA
To: AdmSmith; AnalogReigns; Cacique; caryatid; Celtjew Libertarian; CobaltBlue; concentric circles; ...
To: decimon
...a Neanderthal man's skeleton...You see one Neanderthal, you've seen them all.
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posted on
08/07/2008 2:13:32 PM PDT
by
Rudder
To: decimon; SunkenCiv
Like the Neanderthals, I’m speechless.
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posted on
08/07/2008 2:47:06 PM PDT
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wildbill
To: DManA
What the DNA says is that Neanderthals and Man did not breed, or at the least, did not have offspring that survived.
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08/07/2008 3:55:40 PM PDT
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Defiant
(Democrats complained that the war was for oil. Now they make war ON oil.)
To: decimon
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08/07/2008 4:02:48 PM PDT
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mysterio
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