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Frequent inbreeding may have caused skeletal abnormalities in early humans
ScienceMag.org ^ | Nov 5, 2018 | Michael Price

Posted on 11/06/2018 12:24:18 PM PST by ETL

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To: AnalogReigns

I knew about the Canaanites, didn’t think it was as common as you indicate.

Learn something new every day!


61 posted on 11/08/2018 12:27:29 PM PST by Reily
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Aaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhhh! I’m blind!


62 posted on 11/09/2018 3:25:52 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: ETL

the leg bones are bowed because of ricketts, not from congenital abnormalities.


63 posted on 11/10/2018 8:51:02 PM PST by LadyDoc (Liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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From the article...

“Trinkaus notes that, whereas some skeletal disorders like rickets affect the whole body, many skeletons were found with deformities on only one side of the body.

He also says many fossils in his analysis show no evidence of special rites.

However, several bodies show abnormalities consistent with known genetic mutations, and multiple individuals from at least one site exhibited several different conditions, suggesting the people might be related.

It’s thought that most human populations at the time were small and isolated, Trinkaus says.

In those conditions, inbreeding can lead to widespread harmful genetic mutations.”


64 posted on 11/11/2018 3:13:43 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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Big black dog and pet.

65 posted on 11/11/2018 3:22:27 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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