Neandertals had older mothers and younger fathers

Phys dot org ^ | April 23, 2020 | Max Planck Society

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When the ancestors of modern humans left Africa 50,000 years ago they met the Neandertals. In this encounter, the Neandertal population contributed around two percent of the genome to present day non-African populations. A collaboration of scientists from Aarhus University in Denmark, deCODE Genetics in Iceland, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have conducted the most comprehensive study to date using data obtained from 27,566 Icelanders, to figure out which parts of our genomes contain Neandertal DNA and what role it plays in modern humans.

Every person of non-African decent shares around two percent of their DNA with the Neandertals. However, different people carry different pieces of Neandertal DNA so when the authors added them up they could reconstruct at least 38 percent of the Neandertal genome using 14 million Neandertal DNA fragments.

Comparing this Neandertal DNA with the Neandertal and Denisovan genomes, which were sequenced at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, the researchers found that the Neandertal population that mixed with modern Icelanders was more similar to a Neandertal found in Croatia than to Neandertals found in Russia. Unexpectedly, they also found that Icelanders carry traces of Denisovan DNA, which was previously only thought to be present in East Asians and populations from Papua New Guinea.

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• Were Neanderthals stoned to death by modern humans? [2008]
• Why did Neanderthals have such big noses? [2008]
• Neanderthals Ate Seals and Dolphins [2008]
• Photo In The News: DNA-Based Neanderthal Face Unveiled [2008]
• Neanderthals Conquered Mammoths, Why Not Us? [2008]
• 'Complexity' of Neanderthal tools [2008]
• Scientists map mitochondrial DNA of prehistoric Neanderthal [2008]
• Balkan Caves, Gorges Were Pre-Neanderthal Haven [2008]
• Britain's Last Neanderthals Were More Sophisticated Than We Thought [2008]
• Britain's last Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we thought [2008]
• DNA Reveals Neanderthal Redheads [2008]
• Neanderthals Were Seperate Species, Says New Human Family Tree [2008]
• Neandertals Had Big Mouths, Gaped Widely [2008]
• Neandertals Ate Their Veggies, Tooth Study Shows [2008]
• Neanderthals At Mealtime: Pass The Meat [2008]
• Grunt work: Scientists make Neanderthals speak again [2008]
• Neanderthals Speak Out After 30,000 Years [2008]
• Neanderthals Wore Make-Up And Liked To Chat [2008]
• Human Ancestor Fossil Found in Europe (Spain) [2008]
• Skulls Of Modern Humans And Ancient Neanderthals... Not Natural Selection [2008]
• Paleolithic Handaxes From The North Sea (Neanderthals) [2008]
• Archaeologists To Drill In Bexley (UK) For Evidence Of Ancient Occupation [2008]
• Cannibalism May Have Wiped Out Neanderthals [2008]
• Tooth Scan Reveals Neanderthal Mobility [2008]
• Doctoral Student Makes Discovery On Neanderthal Eating Habits [2008]
• Are We Related to Neanderthals? [2008]
• Neanderthals Stitched Too Little Too Late [2008]
• Neanderthal-Human Hybrid 'A Myth' [2007]
• Neanderthal Children Grew Up Fast [2007]
• Doc Science Reports: The Apple Don't Fall Far From the Evolutionary Tree ! [2007]
• Neanderthals didn't breed with men [2007]
• Ancient DNA Reveals Neandertals With Red Hair, Fair Complexions [2007]
• Ancient DNA reveals that some Neanderthals were redheads [2007]
• Inconsistencies With Neanderthal Genomic DNA Sequences [2007]
• The man who died half a million years ago [2007]
• Go East old man: Neanderthals reached China's doorstep [2007]
• Neanderthals Roamed As Far As Siberia [2007]
• Turns out Neanderthals had good oral hygiene [2007]
• Dramatic climate shift didn't kill Neanderthals [2007]
• Handsome By Chance: Why Humans Look Different From Neanderthals [2007]
• Odd Skull Boosts Human, Neandertal Interbreeding Theory [2007]
• Chance And Isolation Gave Humans Elegant Skulls [2007]
• Super-Eruption: No Problem (Toba) [2007]
• Researchers May Remake Neanderthal DNA [2007]
• Ancient Etruscans Were Immigrants From Anatolia (Turkey) [2007]
• Neanderthals 'Were Ahead Of Their Time' [2007]
• Dry Period In Spain Explains Neanderthals' Last Stand [2007]
• Climate Change, Not Humans, Trounced Neanderthals [2007]
• Video Surfaces Showing Kurdish Girl Stoned to Death for Relationship With Iraqi Sunni Boy [2007]
• Spanish Scientists Point At Climate Changes As The Cause Of The Neanderthal Extinction . . . [2007]
• The Emerging Fate Of The Neanderthals [2007]
• Mysterious Migrations [2007]
• Report: Geico Cavemen Will Be Focus of New ABC Sitcom [2007]
• Freeze 'Condemned Neanderthals' [2007]
• Neanderthals on the Hunt [2007]
• Neanderthals among us? [2007]
• European Skull's Evolving Story (Neanderthal/Modern Hybrid?) [2007]
• Skull suggests human-Neanderthal link (found in a cave in Romania) [2007]
• Neanderthals' Tough Stone AgeLives [2006]
• Neanderthal Women Joined Men in the Hunt (Eat your heart out, feminists) [2006]
• Gendered Division Of Labor Gave Modern Humans Advantage Over Neanderthals [2006]
• Did Starving Neanderthals Eat Each Other? [2006]
• What happened to the Neanderthals? Check their DNA. [2006]
• DNA from Neanderthal leg shows distant split [2006]
• Neanderthals in Gene Pool, Study Suggests [2006]
• Scientists Create Neanderthal Genome [2006]
• Modern Humans, Neanderthals May Have Interbred [2006]
• Bending The Branches (Archaeology - Neanderthals) [2006]
• Scientists Bid To Take Neanderthal DNA Sample [2006]
• Neanderthal 'butcher shop' found in France [2006]
• Are we ALL neanderthals? [2006]
• Neanderthals And Humans Lived Side By Side [2006]
• Modern Humans, Not Neanderthals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out' [2006]
• There is a little Neanderthal in a lot of us [2006]
• How Modern Were European Neanderthals? [2006]
• Neanderthal or Cretin? A Debate Over Iodine [2006]
• Are you part Neanderthal? [2006]
• Sleep With Neanderthals? Apparently We (homo Sapiens) Did [2006]
• Science rebuilds DNA of Neanderthals [2006]
• Project plans map of Neanderthal genome [2006]
• Scientists Plan to Rebuild Neanderthal Genome [2006]
• 100,000 year-old DNA sequence allows new look at Neandertal's genetic diversity [2006]
• Scientists Sequence Neanderthal Genome For First Time [2006]
• Hominids' Cave Rave-Ups May Link Music And Speech [2006]
• Neanderthal Yields Nuclear DNA [2006]
• Neanderthals Take Out Their Small Blades [2006]
• Co-Worker Wadrobe Malfunction (Vanity) [2006]
• Neanderthals And Humans: Perhaps They Never Met [2006]
• Semi-News: Neanderthals Lived in Iranian Cave [2006]
• And the world's sexiest woman is... [2006]
• Neanderthals Lived In Iran's Kermanshah Caves [2006]
• Neanderthals Were Not Stupid, Just A Bit Anti-Social [2006]
• Science Journal: Caveman Crooners May Have Aided Early Human Life [2006]
• Judge: No Deal For Teacher Who Slept With Her Student [2006]
• A Good Neanderthal Was Hard to Find [2006]
• Study: Modern Humans Killed Off Neanderthals Quickly [2006]
• Modern humans 'blitzed Europe'(Radiocarbon Dating Development) [2006]
• Modern humans took over Europe in just 5,000 years [2006]
• Humans vs. Neanderthals: Game Over Earlier [2006]
• Neanderthals: Top-Notch Hunters [2006]
• It's Pay Or Punish [2006]
• New Study Reveals Neanderthals Were As Good At Hunting As Early Modern Humans [2006]
• Neanderthal Man Floated Into Europe, Say Spanish Researchers [2006]
• America's model housewife turns feminist as husband abandons her [2006]
• Redating The Latest Neanderthals In Europe [2006]
• Brits Got Early Start [2006]
• Thoughtful Hunters (Neanderthals) [2006]
• Scientists Show We've Been Losing Face For 10,000 Years [2005]
• Early Humans Settled India Before Europe, Study Suggests [2005]
• Big chill killed off the Neanderthals [2005]
• Neanderthal Flute [2005]
• Study: Neanderthals lived alongside modern man [2005]
• Modern humans, Neanderthals shared earth for 1,000 years [2005]
• Muslim group in Britain decries 'hate' [2005]
• Minatogawa People (An Asian Neanderthal?) [2005]
• Neanderthal Genome May Be Reconstructed [2005]
• Stone Age Cutups (Deathly Rituals Emerge at Neandertal Site) [2005]
• Free trade may have finished off Neanderthals [2005]
• Neanderthals Sang Like Sopranos [2005]
• Oldest Fossil Protein Sequenced [from Neanderthal] [2005]
• Scientists Build 'Frankenstein' Neanderthal Skeleton [2005]
• History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud [2005]
• Anthropologist resigns in 'dating disaster' [2005]
• Disgraced Anthropologist Drinks 40,000-Year-Old Milk (Humerus break) [2005]
• For Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens, Was It De-Lovely?[Did they shtup?] [2005]
• Al-Qaida purportedly calls for holy war [2005]
• Prehistoric Knives Suggest Humans Competed [2005]
• High notes of the singing Neanderthals [2005]
• The Mysterious End Of Essex Man (UK) [2005]
• Gene Arrangement Makes Some Europeans More Fertile [2005]
• Genes Promoting Fertility Are Found in Europeans [2005]
• London - Red hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals... [2005]
• Gene Roddenberry, the "Prime Directive," and First World vs Third World Leftism [2004]
• Caveful of Clues About Early Humans: Interbreeding With Neanderthals Among Theories Being Explored [2004]
• In The Neanderthal Mind [2004]
• Neanderthal Man 'Never Walked In Northern Europe' [2004]
• Fossil Findings Blur Picture Of Art's Birth (Neanderthals?) [2004]
• The Relationship Between The Basque And Ainu [2004]
• Stone Age Elephant Remains Found (England, Slain By Humans) [2004]
• Study: Humans, Neanderthals Did Not Mate [2004]
• Anthropologists Hail Romania Fossil Find (35K Y.O. Humans) [2004]
• Stones May Hold Key To Why We Are Here [2004]
• Neanderthal Extinction Pieced Together [2004]
• 'Your Forefathers Were Not Neanderthals' [2004]
• Big Chill Killed Off The Neanderthals [2004]
• Siberian Graveyard's Secret (More Redheads) [2004]
• The Neanderthal Creed [2003]
• Free Club if You Join Today [2003]
• Daschle on Defensive Over Kennedy's 'Neanderthal' Outburst [2003]
• "Honest" Ted the anthropologist [2003]
• Kennedy Calls Bush Minority Nominees 'Neanderthals' [2003]
• Ted Kennedy calls Bush's judicial nominees "Neanderthals" [2003]
• Perspective: Die-hard Confederates should be reconstructed [2003]
• Neanderthal Hunters Rivalled Human Skill [2003]
• Neandertals Not Our Ancestors, DNA Study Suggests (Whewww!!!) [2003]
• Neanderthals 'Had Hands Like Ours' [2003]
• Neanderthal DNA Sequencing [2003]
• Mammoth Skeleton Found In Russia's Voronzh [2003]
• A Rebuilt Neanderthal [2002]
• Neanderthal Skeleton Rediscovered [2002]
• Gene Separates Early Humans from Apes [2002]
• DNA Traces Roots Back To Stone Age [2002]
• New evidence we all have the same ancestors Cal student's discovery should resolve dispute [2002]
• American Neanderthal? [2002]
• Study: Neanderthals, Modern Humans Same Species [2002]
• Neanderthals Clever Enough To Make 'Superglue' [2002]
• Science Shows Cave Art Developed Early [2001]
• New Evidence for Multiregional Origins [2001]

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve
in local libraries

"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]

[SunkenCiv]

The popular Neanderthal entertainment, The Cavebear Hunter.

[Paladin2]

Round, round,
get around,
I get around...

[llevrok]

Neanderthal cougars?

[Fungi]

No need, all of it is junk.

[Dilbert San Diego]

LOL. Younger men and older women back in the days of Neanderthals. Who knew????

[DesertRhino]

Those were indeed the days of sabertooth cougars...

[seawolf101]

Neanderthal cougars?

Must be an evolutionary trait.

[x]

Just as I suspected all along ...

... Ashton Kutcher is a Neanderthal ...

[Verginius Rufus]

So that was the difference between Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons.

Neanderthal men preferred older women.

Cro-Magnon men liked younger women, faster horses, older whiskey and more money.

[howlinhound]

So the current president of France is a Neanderthal!?! Just as I suspected!

[shanover]

Neanderthal cougars?

LMAO! My first thought.

[mass55th]

"Neandertals had older mothers and younger fathers"

Were the females all named Cher?

[tbw2]

How old would an “older mother” be by modern human standards?

And if Neaderthals matured sooner, would that mean they had kids at similar ages as humans but were genetically “older”?

[Mariner]

“Neanderthal cougars?”

That would be 20, instead of 13.

[9YearLurker]

WHat happened to the ‘H’ in Neanderthal?

And why the Google search drop?

[a fool in paradise]

Did they find cougars teeth in the grave?