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Neanderthal-human trysts may be linked to modern depression, heart disease
Fox News ^ | 2/12/2016 | Charles Q. Choi

Posted on 02/12/2016 12:47:35 PM PST by sparklite2

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To: dp0622

What they know about the Neanderthals is somewhat less than we know about Obama.


21 posted on 02/12/2016 1:03:12 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: sparklite2
differences in modern human skin color probably developed very recently, Capra said.

Ten years ago the NYT ran an article saying it was within the past 6,000 years.

22 posted on 02/12/2016 1:05:05 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: sparklite2
Tryst?

Did someone say tryst?


23 posted on 02/12/2016 1:06:07 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: tanknetter

Unless he’s pure black African, as an African-American his DNA most likely contains Caucasian DNA. There was a lot of mixing between whites and blacks in American, and blacks here are very light skinned compared to Africans.


24 posted on 02/12/2016 1:06:34 PM PST by roadcat
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To: roadcat

Most certainly, yes.

He really doesn’t like being challenged on his rants being a sign of his own insecurities and search for a defined identity.


25 posted on 02/12/2016 1:13:59 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: sparklite2

Neanderthal?

That might explain this hairy girl I once woke up with.


26 posted on 02/12/2016 1:16:14 PM PST by Gamecock ( Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...Matthew 10:28)
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To: sparklite2

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v507/n7492/full/nature12961.html

Fascinating. I recall not too long ago the general consensus was that modern humans had no Neandertal DNA, now they say as much as 40% got transferred.


27 posted on 02/12/2016 1:16:52 PM PST by DBrow
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To: sparklite2

Since Africans don’t have any Neanderthal DNA, this means that Africans aren’t subject to depression, heart attacks, nicotine addiction, obesity and other health problems?


28 posted on 02/12/2016 1:18:10 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: cloudmountain

Besides, the Celts WERE originally European, from central Europe, I believe. Yes. My family always claimed we originated in the Rhine valley. However that may be because many of us married PA Dutch, Quakers, and Amish.

I have also heard the Celts never stopped moving west, even past the US and to Australia.
And FWIW, not much, Pictures of my family show smaller, wirey types while pictures of mrs p6’s family are, let’s say, of ...ummm...stockier folk.

Oh, there are also stories from my family of Pictish branches as well as being horse thieves in Kelton Parish, UK.


29 posted on 02/12/2016 1:20:18 PM PST by prisoner6 (Unmutual and Disharmonious)
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To: Cowboy Bob

That would be the case if there was only one out-of-Africa.
I think I read somewhere that there was a lot of toing and froing twixt Africa and Europe.


30 posted on 02/12/2016 1:21:11 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: sparklite2

I stopped reading after the fourth word in the title...


31 posted on 02/12/2016 1:23:04 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: sparklite2

I’ll have the roast duck, with the mango salsa.


32 posted on 02/12/2016 1:25:45 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: sparklite2

Or, as the scriptures say:

When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose ... The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.


33 posted on 02/12/2016 1:26:48 PM PST by PAR35
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Did ancient humans and neanderthals really have “trysts?”


I hope they at least had dinner and a movie first........


34 posted on 02/12/2016 1:27:37 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: sparklite2

“Was it the moon? No, no, the Bossa Nova.”


35 posted on 02/12/2016 1:28:54 PM PST by eastsider
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To: Paradox

This entire thread is “binary” and “hetero normative” in the subject matter.

What about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Neanderthals???? What about their health issues??? What about their progeny???


36 posted on 02/12/2016 1:29:23 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: sparklite2

May... could... might... This is modern “Science”.

If you don’t like the current anthropological theories just wait a while. They are as malleable as the weather.


37 posted on 02/12/2016 1:30:20 PM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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To: sparklite2

“Was it the moon? No, no, the Bossa Nova.”


38 posted on 02/12/2016 1:30:40 PM PST by eastsider
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To: sparklite2

More Bull crap-— Africans who had ZERO chance of “trysting” with Nianderthals have major problems with heart disease and depression.

Nice try, guys.


39 posted on 02/12/2016 1:43:39 PM PST by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I hope they at least had dinner and a movie first........


40 posted on 02/12/2016 1:59:15 PM PST by MUDDOG
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