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Ancient DNA Reveals Neandertals With Red Hair, Fair Complexions
Science Magazine ^
| 2007-10-26
| Elizabeth Culotta
Posted on 10/28/2007 4:03:27 PM PDT by Lessismore
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To: Lessismore
Yes, they're called Irish people.
Kidding! I'm kidding!
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:04:18 PM PDT
by
domenad
(In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
To: Lessismore
Do a DNA test on Dan Dierdorf. I’m just sayin’.
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:05:52 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (Personally, I LIKED MNF when they had Frank and Al and Dan.))
To: domenad
Ginger kids.
Like the ones that Eric Cartman was trying to exterminate on South Park.
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:10:08 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
(Ignorance is no handicap for some people in a debate. They just get more shrill.)
To: Lessismore
Those folks at the Max Planck Institute have been doing some really groundbreaking ancient DNA research!
Good stuff.
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:11:18 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
To: domenad
Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!.
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:11:58 PM PDT
by
xJones
To: domenad
But she is Italian
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:14:11 PM PDT
by
Stepan12
( "We are all girlymen now." Conservative reaction to Ann Coulter's anti PC joke)
To: domenad
It was those darn vikings, raping and pillaging Ireland and France and neandertal country.
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:16:05 PM PDT
by
Marysecretary
(GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
To: alloysteel
There have been some very prominent Gingers in history such as Ron Howard, Carrot Top and ... ummmm Ron Howard.
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:16:51 PM PDT
by
Gumption
To: Lessismore
I think this is not a new idea.
I think I have read this many years ago.
To: Lessismore
Members of the species Homo Sapien have red hair;
Neanderthals are Homo Sapiens, from all of the research that I have seen;
Therefore, it is not surprising to find out that Neanderthals had (have?) red hair.
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:17:10 PM PDT
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: Lessismore
Aside from being about Neanderthals, this is old news. The above picture of recreation of a Neanderthal child found in is from a Polish blog dated November 16, 2006. For those of you fluent in Polish, here is the link
http://migg.wordpress.com/2006/11/16/neandertalczyk-powraca/
For those of you who do not read Polish, here is an Earlier Scince blog from July 5, 2005 featuring the same child
http://scithought.blogspot.com/2005/07/building-neanderthal.html
To: Gumption
How about Eric the Red?
susie
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:29:09 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: LiteKeeper
Members of the species Homo Sapien have red hair;
Neanderthals are Homo Sapiens, from all of the research that I have seen;
Therefore, it is not surprising to find out that Neanderthals had (have?) red hair. Perhaps you should study some of the science websites, instead of just creationist sites.
There is an ongoing debate in science as to whether Neanderthal should be classified as Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.
So far the DNA research suggests the former, as does the article at the beginning of this thread.
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:29:28 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
To: jmcenanly
That picture actually looks like a girl I knew when I was a kid. Weird.
susie
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:30:24 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: Coyoteman
Is it my imagination, or do the pictures of neandertals today look more like us than they did years ago? I wonder if this is based on new evidence or what?
susie
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:32:59 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: brytlea
Is it my imagination, or do the pictures of neandertals today look more like us than they did years ago? I wonder if this is based on new evidence or what?
susie I think you're right.
Early drawings of Neanderthal depicted a slouched-over, crude individual largely because the first Neanderthal found was suffering from severe arthritis. This image got into the popular literature and supported the "cave man" image for a century.
It is only in the last decades that this incorrect portrayal in the popular literature is being corrected.
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:43:42 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
To: brytlea
New evidence and better forensic modeling. The ‘ugly little boy’ in my previous post was created by the same techniques used to put a faces on murder victims.
To: brytlea
It is not your imagination. Anthropologists are getting as PC as everyone else and recently there has been a push to show them as more human, though I doubt they really were. I think if one were to encounter a Neanderthal alive today they would run from it screaming, feeling that they had seen a Bigfoot type creature.
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:51:58 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
To: Lessismore
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