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Humans and Neandertals likely interbred in Middle East
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| 28 January 2015
| Michael Balter
Posted on 01/29/2015 1:26:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: trisham
Better than some of the ghetto rats we see.
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posted on
01/29/2015 2:25:56 PM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Farmer Dean
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posted on
01/29/2015 2:30:05 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: outofsalt
I’m of Irish and German ancestry, so this subject is of interest to me. I’d love to be related to the Neanderthals. It would explain my German Grandfather’s colouring. :)
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posted on
01/29/2015 2:34:07 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: 353FMG
“No, Reid is directly related to Neandertals”
OK, I'll go with that. Sounds better!!!!
:-)
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posted on
01/29/2015 2:43:50 PM PST
by
EXCH54FE
(Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
To: SunkenCiv
Neandertal? What the H?
Us proud Neanderthal descendants want our H back.
To: SunkenCiv
Neandertal? What the H?
Us proud Neanderthal descendants want our H back.
To: SunkenCiv
Neandertals were smart enough to disguise themselves as goats?
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posted on
01/29/2015 2:52:14 PM PST
by
Feckless
(I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
To: frithguild
Well they say modern humans came out of Africa...compared to the majority of white women I have noticed otherwise normal-looking black men paired with, I’d say she’s a looker!
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posted on
01/29/2015 3:07:11 PM PST
by
To Hell With Poverty
(Ephesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
To: miss marmelstein
Oh, this is way over my head! But I do know that this story has been debunked. On one hand you don't know. On the other you do know. Wow.
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
Oh, go away! As if this kind of stuff was new to Free Republic.
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posted on
01/29/2015 3:14:41 PM PST
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
To: SunkenCiv
IOW, you dont know what youre talking about.
I did not find the post by IOW but most of these stories do seem credible after frauds like Nebraska Man, Peking Man, Java Man and the like. I think Neanderthal mating with modern man is a fantastic. These writers say a lot of things I think to sell their papers or to get grant monies but there is no hard evidence nor peer review.
Just the facts mam like Sargent Friday used to say.
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posted on
01/29/2015 4:02:32 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: DaveA37
I was think the same things the first Muslims...
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posted on
01/29/2015 4:19:47 PM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: Genoa
They aren’t? What happens if she brought to the mom ‘Good Cavekeeping’ magazine.
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posted on
01/29/2015 4:26:13 PM PST
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ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: Farmer Dean
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posted on
01/29/2015 4:27:51 PM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: frithguild
Well, if Laz would hit Lena Dunham, he’d probably hit that... twice.
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posted on
01/29/2015 5:01:35 PM PST
by
Rodamala
To: frithguild
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posted on
01/29/2015 5:04:55 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: Pearls Before Swine
It could be hit, especially if she were the last woman on Earth. Or the first...
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posted on
01/29/2015 7:27:32 PM PST
by
null and void
(The aggregate effect of competitive capitalism is indistinguishable from magic)
To: Verginius Rufus
German doesn’t have the ‘th’ sound, so spelling it Neandertal gets English speakers to properly pronounce it.
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posted on
01/29/2015 7:30:06 PM PST
by
null and void
(The aggregate effect of competitive capitalism is indistinguishable from magic)
To: frithguild
In the Land of Nod, East of Eden, she was probably a fox. Now you know why Cain ran in that direction after God pronounced sentence for killing his brother.
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posted on
01/29/2015 7:45:21 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
To: mountainlion; SunkenCiv; miss marmelstein
mountainlion:
"I did not find the post by IOW but most of these stories do seem credible after frauds like Nebraska Man, Peking Man, Java Man and the like.
I think Neanderthal mating with modern man is a fantastic." Nebraska Man was a simple mistake, published 92 years ago, corrected 87 years ago.
Nothing like it has happened since.
Peking Man and Java Man are both today considered valid examples of homo erectus from roughly a million years ago.
Other similar fossils have been found from the same time period in widely scattered locations.
Evidence from mtDNA suggests that human and Neanderthal common ancestors lived circa 750,000 years ago, a time which corresponds to homo antecessor fossils.
But nuclear DNA also suggests a small amount of interbreeding between humans & Neanderthals, in the range of 50,000 years ago in the Middle East.
As for that German scientist convicted of faking some of his report data -- that was one man, years ago, in a field where at least hundreds work every day to discover and interpret data about our evolutionary past.
So his errors are not included in today's understandings, and should not be used to discredit the entire enterprise.
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posted on
01/30/2015 5:15:57 AM PST
by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective.)
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