Modern man had sex with Neanderthals

Telegraph ^ | 10-25-09 | Amy Willis

[Dysart]

Modern man and Neanderthals had sex across the species barrier, according to leading geneticist Professor Svante Paabo.

Professor Paabo, who is director of genetics at the renowned Max Planck Institution for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, made the claim at a conference in the Cold Springs Laboratory in New York.

But Prof Paabo said he was unclear if the couplings had led to children, of if they were capable of producing offspring.

"What I'm really interested in is, did we have children back then and did those children contribute to our variation today?" he said in an article in The Sunday Times.

"I'm sure that they had sex, but did it give offspring that contributed to us? We will be able to answer quite vigorously with the new [Neanderthal genome] sequence."

The phenomenon is already seen in modern animals such as horses and zebras, and lions and tigers, but resulting offspring have always been infertile.

In recent years, fossils with both Neanderthal and modern human features have been found suggesting the two species interbred but previous scans of Neanderthal genes reveal Neanderthal DNA to have a very different make-up to modern man's.

[TheVitaminPress]

From The Vitamin Press

[combat_boots]

I looked at the pic for the shoes....

[gusty]

Is that why he wasted all that money on Mo Vaughn.

[martin_fierro]

based on what evidence?

Prehistoric Penthouse Forum, of course.

"Dear Penthouse Forum -- You're never going to believe what happened to Ogg and me the other night at the mastodon roast..."

[hennie pennie]

Yes, they did!
NO, they didn't!
Yes, they did!
NO way!!
Yes sirree, they certainly did!

What will it take for this question to finally be answered, for once & for all?? Isn't there enough genetic evidence available yet?

These articles keep on coming, fast & furiously, and each one seems to contradict the immediately preceeding one, ad infinitum.

Incidentally, the photograph from the article is simply astoundingly indescribable. What a 'hunk', hey? NOT.

[IYellAtMyTV]

OMG! ROSIE "TOE"! MY EYES!

Wheres that pic of Miss Canada? I need to cleanse the retinas...BRB...

[IYellAtMyTV]

Okay, all better now. Your welcome.

[Conservative4Ever]

Well Duh....the book ‘Clan of the Cave Bear’ said this ages ago.

[ApplegateRanch]

I can see a journalist making the goof but a little surprised an editor didn’t, well, edit it.

???

Isn't an editor just a journalist who can't write, but isn't unqualified enough to teach?

[IrishPennant]

Wow...more camel in her suit then yu can find in the deserts of Egypt!! Bless ya!!!

[SIDENET]

Something about that pic makes me think of camels.

[Gay State Conservative]

[IYellAtMyTV]

All I can say is that if the Mods pull it, they had better damn well axe the Rosie pic too!

[FredZarguna]

Been a long time since I studied it, but I believe you actually have this:

[allmendream]

Also the offspring of lions and tigers can and do reproduce. Here is a picture of a half tiger half lion and her CUB.

[Hot Tabasco]

Lions and Tigers produce Tigons and Ligers (depending upon if a Tiger of Lion was the father); and although most cross species “mules” have fertility PROBLEMS (due to difficulty swapping the DNA between mom and dad to make reproductive cells) they can and DO produce offspring. For example a Tigon was bred to a Tiger to produce a Ti-Tigon.

In captivity where the breeding was almost forced but never in the wild..........

[Jonx6]

ping for later use...

[IrishPennant]

Oh, let em pull it...I just cut and pasted that shot into an email to my 17 year old son and told him to make it his wallpap...errr.....what’s that honey??? I am not typing anything to anyo...”click”.

[dearolddad]

It was only one time and nobody was supposed to find out.

Did he promise to respect her in the morning?

[scoobysnak71]

God bless you, but the Camel Toe Police around here will probably send you a Nasty-Gram, such as "We dont want this to turn into Maxim", or something like that. (I think I've heard that before somewhere...... ;) )

There again, maybe THIS message wont make it past the first cut.....