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Are you part Neanderthal?
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | Wednesday, 23 August 2006 | Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News

Posted on 08/22/2006 10:25:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

People of European descent may be 5% Neanderthal, according to a DNA study that counters the view that modern humans left Africa and replaced all other existing hominids. The same study, published in the latest issue of the journal PloS Genetics, also says West Africans could be related to an archaic human population... "Instead of a population that left Africa 100,000 years ago and replaced all other archaic human groups, we propose that this population interacted with another population that had been in Europe for much longer, maybe 400,000 years," says Vincent Plagnol... Using statistics and computer modelling, the researchers focused on linkage 'disequilibriums', or sections within genes that did not make sense if only modern human matings are considered... The scientists are not certain which early human group could have contributed to West African DNA, but both Europeans and Africans in the study showed about the same 5% archaic contribution. Neanderthals are believed to have originated in Africa around 400,000 years ago, but they left and then settled in Europe, hence the apparent lack of interaction with modern humans in Africa. Alan Templeton, professor of Evolutionary and Population Programs at the University of Michigan, has also conducted DNA studies and comes to similar conclusions... New technologies are being developed to sequence nuclear DNA from fossils, so in the near future, scientists may learn more about how modern human genes compare with those of archaic humans, like Neanderthals.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; multiregionalism; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
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To: SunkenCiv; hellinahandcart; Lil'freeper; big'ol_freeper

My wife says so.


21 posted on 08/23/2006 3:08:20 AM PDT by sauropod (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." PJO)
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To: sauropod
I'm going to refrain from commenting. ;)
22 posted on 08/23/2006 3:32:12 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: Lil'freeper

Well, there's a first time for everything ;-).


23 posted on 08/23/2006 3:35:33 AM PDT by sauropod (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." PJO)
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To: SunkenCiv

Cirroc: "Thank you! Thank you very much, thank you! First of all, let me say how happy I am to be your nominee for the United States Senate! [ applause ] You know.. thank you.. I don't really understand your Congress, or your system of checks and balances.. because, as I said during the campaign - I'm just a caveman! I fell on some ice, and later got thawed out by scientists. But there is one thing I do know - we must do everything in our power to lower the Capital Gains Tax. Thank you!"

24 posted on 08/23/2006 4:25:26 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Visit www.greenhelmetguy.com! We'll put a corpse on the rubble for you.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I think I'm part bear.


25 posted on 08/23/2006 5:25:56 AM PDT by Renfield
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To: martin_fierro
Heh! Heh!

May I join you in partaking of duck in mango salsa? I find it so "hobbit" forming ;o)

26 posted on 08/23/2006 6:51:20 AM PDT by Anne of DC (Boycott all Bush-bashing threads!)
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To: sauropod

Ain't no monkey MY ancestor!


27 posted on 08/23/2006 6:53:17 AM PDT by Anne of DC (Boycott all Bush-bashing threads!)
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To: Renfield

I'm part sabertooth (Grrrr!)


28 posted on 08/23/2006 6:54:14 AM PDT by Anne of DC (Boycott all Bush-bashing threads!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Discovery ran a special on Neaderthals and the supposed reasons for their demise this weekend.

I don't think it was all that convincing but revealed some interesting new data about them.

My theory is people that like to eat meat like I do must be part Neaderthal.

Those veggie crunching PETA types are probably non-Neaderthals.


29 posted on 08/23/2006 6:55:32 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: SunkenCiv
According to that drunken fat sot from Mass - and who passes for a US Senator by day - all republicans are knuckle dragging Neanderthals.

Who'd a thunk that he was partially right. /s

30 posted on 08/23/2006 6:58:24 AM PDT by Condor51 (Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
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To: Lil'freeper

Hiya!


31 posted on 08/23/2006 7:01:02 AM PDT by Anne of DC (Boycott all Bush-bashing threads!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Are you part Neanderthal?

Before my hair developed what I call 'highlights' it was red so I guess I am. LOL

32 posted on 08/23/2006 7:06:31 AM PDT by Dustbunny (The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
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To: SunkenCiv

33 posted on 08/23/2006 7:08:56 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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To: Anne of DC
"I'm part sabertooth!"



Well, um, howdy...

[backs slowly away]
34 posted on 08/23/2006 9:01:10 AM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
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To: ZULU

I heard about that on another forum. He mentioned a claim that the Neanderthal inner ear wouldn't give them a sense of balance adequate for them to run. So, they existed for 500,000 years and all that time, they couldn't run? Yeah, sure. And a few years back, some veg-heads claimed that the Neanderthal went extinct because he ate too much meat. That ridiculous imbecile who referred to Neanderthal as "the village idiot" claimed that speech was enabled by genes on the mitochondria, and that the Neanderthal's lack of speech led to extinction. :')


35 posted on 08/23/2006 9:54:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Renfield

Well, cover up, for cryin' out loud.


36 posted on 08/23/2006 10:02:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
Are you part Neanderthal?

As I always say to the ladies: "I may look like a hobbit but I'm all neanderthal where it counts baby."
37 posted on 08/23/2006 10:11:23 AM PDT by BJClinton (What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
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To: BJClinton

And then she sez, "is that a brow ridge, or are you just happy to see me?"


38 posted on 08/23/2006 10:15:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: rmlew
The question then is is it a sign of common lineage or a trait that developed seperately, probably as an adaptation to cold weather.
Really, a bony ridge is an adaptation to cold weather? Hmm, I wonder...
Neanderthal Man 'never walked in northern Europe'
by Tony Paterson
August 22, 2004
Work by the flamboyant Professor Reiner Protsch von Zieten showed that Neanderthal Man existed in northern Europe. Calculations on skeletal remains found at Hahnofersand, near Hamburg, stated they were 36,000 years old. Yet recent research at Oxford University's carbon-dating laboratory has suggested that they date back a mere 7,500 years. By that time, Homo sapiens was already well-established and the Neanderthals were extinct. Chris Stringer, a Stone Age specialist and head of human origins at London's Natural History Museum, said: "What was considered a major piece of evidence showing that the Neanderthals once lived in northern Europe has fallen by the wayside. We are having to rewrite prehistory." ...Now, however, important remains that Oxford scientists no longer believe are prehistoric include the female "Bischof-Speyer" skeleton, found near the south-west German town of Speyer with unusually good teeth. Their evidence suggests that she is 3,300 years old, not 21,300. Another apparent misdating involved an allegedly prehistoric skull discovered near Paderborn in 1976 and considered the oldest human remain ever found in the region. Prof von Zieten dated the skull at 27,400 years old. The latest research, however, indicates that it belonged to an elderly man who died around 1750.

39 posted on 08/23/2006 10:24:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Ah don't be afraid!

I don't bite!.........MUCH! LOL!

40 posted on 08/23/2006 10:45:32 AM PDT by Anne of DC (Boycott all Bush-bashing threads!)
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