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Posted on 01/31/2020 12:31:26 PM PST by Red Badger
“the weird thing is that his brother has almost no body hair at all. same parents but a totally different batch of DNA apparently. Its weird.”
One of our adult sons has minimal body hair, light and sparse beard and gets his military haircut every months.
His sibling is like me. Hair all over.
Genetics can be funny/odd.
So let me get this straight. At some point in the past neanderthals and Cro-Magnons mated and produced offspring that could in turn be fertile and produce offspring themselves. This has to be case since many if not most modern humans have neanderthal DNA.
Doesn’t that make neanderthals and Cro-Magnons the same species then? How can science classify them as separate species?
Species designation is vague and fraught with guesses, errors, etc. Species are defined not only by reproductive fidelity and success (which we don’t always know), but also geographically and through time.
This is one example of many instances of the impreciseness of science.
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The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. So, I guess Red Badger had seen this one before my FReepmail...
Here are the other GGG topics introduced since the previous Digest ping:
Because of longstanding master-race biases.
Once again, sampling and statistical assumptions turn out to be in error.
So one assumes that the Neanderthals heard about the hot African chicks and wandered back to see whats up?
Is there any Denisovian in African DNA?
Understood. But it is a pretty firm rule that if two animals can produce offspring that can in turn reproduce then they are the same species. It would seem to me that the Neanderthals were simply a race of humans and not an actual species.
It’s almost as if there is a scientific orthodoxy that tries to define the Neanderthals as a species rather than a race because it seems to fit a certain narrative.
- Joe E. Ross.
I told you....we’re all Neanderthals.
Among other things!
My college dorm had a guy who was 6’6” tall, had long scraggly dark red hair and beard, and an enormous amount of dark red body hair. We all called him “Yeti”.
Eddie Griffin, To beautiful Bi-racial girl: You got any black in you?
Girl: Yes.
Eddie: You want some more?..................
It’s entirely possible to have no genetic heritage from an ancestor as recent as a great grandparent, let alone a Cherokee spouse or two back in the Appalachian frontier era. Far more of the legendary claims of Cherokee ancestry may have basis in fact than is currently believed, but there is no way to prove that via genetic testing currently.
Roasting would have been easy. But re-creating the paleo way of boiling water requires a bit more imagination. On a blustery day in October, Andrew Langley and 13 other graduate students headed to the woods to learn to boil water. They were allowed no obvious cooking vessels: no pots, no pans, no bowls, no cups, no containers at all. But they did bring deer hides, which Langley had carefully procured from deer farms. They were to boil water the Paleolithic way. Langley is a doctoral student in archaeology at the University of York, and he studies how prehistoric humans cooked without pottery. Ceramics are a relatively recent invention in the long arc of human history. Pottery shards appear in the archaeological record only 20,000 years ago, first in China and then many millennia later in the Near East and Europe...
- How Did Humans Boil Water Before the Invention of Pots? | Sarah Zhang | The Atlantic | January 16, 2020
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