HUMANS, NEANDERTHALS DID NOT HAVE BABIES

Discovery News ^ | Aug 16, 2012 | Anon

[Pharmboy]

Recent research strikes a blow to the theory that humans and Neanderthals interbred.

THE GIST Studies over the last two years suggest that Neanderthals vanished more than 30,000 years ago. This would mean that early humans and Neanderthals could not have interbred. enlarge

Over the last two years, several studies have suggested that Homo sapiens got it on with Neanderthals, an hominid who lived in parts of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East for up to 300,000 years but vanished more than 30,000 years ago.

The evidence for this comes from fossil DNA, which shows that on average Eurasians and Asians share between one and four per cent of their DNA with Neanderthals, but Africans almost none.

But a new study by scientists at Britain's University of Cambridge says the shared DNA came from a shared ancestor, not from "hybridization" or reproduction between the two hominid species.

Common ancestor It begins with a common ancestors of Neanderthals and H. sapiens who lived around half a million years ago in parts of Africa and Europe.

Around 300,000 to 350,000 years ago, the European population and the African population of this hominid became separated.

Living in genetic isolation, the European range evolved bit by bit into Neanderthals, while the African range eventually became H. sapiens, which expanded in waves out of Africa from around 60,000 to 70,000 years ago.

[Pharmboy]

Shared genes with a common ancestor or mating? But the fact that they died out 30k years ago does NOT prove that they did not mate.

[polkajello]

Joe Biden ?????

[Pharmboy]

Brow ridge ping...

[LaserJock]

The older and hairier I get convinces me that there’s a neanderthal somewhere back in my family tree. I’m even starting to stoop like one!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Dude, like Homo Sapiens chicks are sooo stuck up, like they're better'n us or sumptin'.

[centurion316]

If Human Beings (Homo Sapiens) and Neanderthals did not have babies, how did they reproduce and how are we still on this Earth? Can no one out there in editor land write a proper headline in the English language?

[Carriage Hill]

"... several studies have suggested that Homo sapiens got it on with Neanderthals..."

What pointy-headed lib-dem moron wrote that?

[Carriage Hill]

"... several studies have suggested that Homo sapiens got it on with Neanderthals..."

What pointy-headed lib-dem moron wrote that?

[Carriage Hill]

Ooops.

[PapaNew]

Sure a lot of confusion about history. I'm not at all convinced there was this "humanoid" hundreds of thousands of years ago. Seems like every "proof" of this (usually tied to "proof" of the "missing link") has actually been proven to be a hoax. I think the earth is probably as old as geologists say it is. The Bible is the friend of true science because true science, tested by a valid scientific method, verifies what the Bible has already asserted.

The Bible indicates man has only been around for about 6000 years. God may have created something like man way before the "recreation" but so far the proof isn't there IMO.

BTW, there is a weird mating between humans and other beings spoken of in the Bible and seems to indicate comes when a society becomes grossly perverted. The offspring were giants called Nephilim. There's evidence Goliath was one of them. I believe they will return in these last days.

[I cannot think of a name]

This may be true, but the human mating with jackass connection has been proven beyond all doubt.

The offspring is called, “liberal”.

[PGR88]

humans, Neanderthals did not have babies

They were just close friends.

[ZX12R]

Shared genes with a common ancestor or mating? But the fact that they died out 30k years ago does NOT prove that they did not mate.

I tend to agree with you. This area of science especially, builds these monumental conclusions with a little mortar of discovery, and a mountain of bricks that are made of conjecture. A level headed person takes these pronouncements with a grain of salt.

[Pharmboy]

Good catch...

[lurk]

That whole cultural barrier could have well been breached, with alcohol.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I had a similiar thought. The headline would have benefited from an adverbial “together” at the end, but I knew what they meant.

[Bratch]

"... several studies have suggested that Homo sapiens got it on with Neanderthals..."

It's obviously true.

[YHAOS]

"... several studies have suggested that Homo sapiens got it on with Neanderthals..."
What pointy-headed lib-dem moron wrote that?

Naah! She said she just wanted to be friends.

[camle]

if there’s a ‘common ancestor’, doesnt’ that mean that somewhere along the line SOMEbody mated?

[dfwgator]

I see that picture, and I immediately think of the quote from the Monty Python "Village Idiot" sketch, "Well I may be an idiot, but I'm no fool."