Sure, Siberia's nice but...
Cos Cob will always be home for me.
Posted on 09/30/2007 3:03:36 PM PDT by blam
Neanderthals roamed as far as Siberia
18:00 30 September 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Roxanne Khamsi
DNA extracted from skeletal remains has shown that Neanderthals roamed some 2000 kilometres further east than previously thought.
Researchers say the genetic sequence of an adolescent Neanderthal found in southern Siberia closely matches that of Neanderthals found in western Europe, suggesting that this close relative of modern humans migrated very long distances.
Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues examined skeletal remains found in the Okladnikov cave in the Altai Mountains and dated as between 30,000 and 38,000 years old . Until now, archaeologists have been unable to determine whether the remains belonged to Neanderthals or another species of extinct hominid because the bones are too fragmented.
Pääbo and his colleagues took 200 milligram samples of bone from the adolescent. After dissolving the mineral component of the bone, the team succeeded in extracting DNA from mitochondria – parts of the cell that produce energy.
Near-perfect match
After sequencing a short fragment of this DNA, the team compared it with that of several Neanderthals found in Europe. They discovered that it matched DNA recovered from remains found in Belgium almost perfectly. The match was "quite a bit of a surprise", according to Pääbo, since the new evidence extends the territory of this hominid some 2000 kilometres further east.
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GGG Ping.
Sure, Siberia's nice but...
Cos Cob will always be home for me.
The Neanderthals in Siberia were sent there by a Mousterian ancestor of Joe Stalin.
Quite a few still here in Collyfornia.
I aways saw him as more of a New Canaan kinda guy myself.
Any of them go by the name of Boxer?
My roomate at Choate was from New Canaan. Perhaps you know him?
No, silly me, of course you wouldn't...
Ok where is the pic of John FN Kerry? “Me mungo John,me are a Neandrithal”!
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Fascinating stuff! Thanks, Blam!
They had more than 200,000 years.
They could wander aimlessly at that rate and still range all over the globe, environment permitting.
Me look everywhere for skinny pale female Ayla.
Or maybe Raquel Welch in skimpy skin mini.
If you notice there are some Neanderthals still roaming in
North America, they are nknown as DEMOCRATS, with fictitious names as Hillary, Lurch, Pelosi, Ried, Dirty Harry, and........Breck Girl!
Bullfrog
There are many that won't get that reference.
Just think of me as a shorter Jondolar, with dark hair, and not as muscular. ;^)
I agree. I'm not suprised at this discovery.
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