Blow to Neanderthal breeding theory

BBC ^ | Tuesday, 13 May, 2003

[blam]

"Only if you have red hair."

LOL, okay, I'll post it

Redheads Are Neanderthals

[Lee'sGhost]

Oh, yeah. I know them. Actually, I dated both of them back in college. (Not at the same time, of course.)

[gore3000]

They found that while, unsurprisingly, modern humans show clear genetic signs of their Cro-Magnon ancestry, no such link between Neanderthal DNA and modern European DNA could be established.

Another nail in the coffin of evolutionist nonsense. The only closely related hominid to man in point of time has been shown not to be our ancestor in any way. This leaves the evolutionists without any possible ancestor to man.

Prediction: we will be seeing a lot of redating of bones to make up for this lack. We will soon be seeing skeletons which were said to be half a million or a million years old to be only 40-50,000 years old.

[SunkenCiv]

Not a ping, just a GGG update. Regarding the topic itself -- this is another GIGO study. This was of mitochondrial DNA, not nuclear DNA; mitochondria do have sex, and therefore the "mutation" rate isn't fixed, in fact, it's not a mutation rate in the first place; the sample was more than 20,000 years old, so there's no guarantee the mtDNA was not from more recent bacteria; and last but not least, the number of base pairs was fewer than 400 (I think it was 378, or 379), out of a presumed original total of 16,000, which means the results were cooked up, i.e., not scientific. The conclusions conformed to the original assumptions.

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[Ahban]

I have often wondered the same myself. If Y chromosome DNA shows some Neanderthal genes then it would support this hypothesis. THeir men took our women, but we did not take theirs.