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Modern man had sex with Neanderthals
Telegraph ^
| 10-25-09
| Amy Willis
Posted on 10/26/2009 3:33:00 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: didtheyordidntthey; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; history; modernman; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
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To: Dysart
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posted on
10/26/2009 3:41:53 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Dysart
I dunno...
...aw heck...
I'd Hit it!
With a club.
22
posted on
10/26/2009 3:41:54 PM PDT
by
Bon mots
To: cripplecreek
It was only one time and nobody was supposed to find out. Friend got the hot one and it was a matter of "taking one for the team".
Besides, the bar was closing.
23
posted on
10/26/2009 3:42:17 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: devane617
I beg to differ...
24
posted on
10/26/2009 3:42:48 PM PDT
by
starlifter
(Sapor Amo Pullus)
To: donhunt
I hope you are not referring to post 10.
25
posted on
10/26/2009 3:42:50 PM PDT
by
w1andsodidwe
(Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
To: tired1
You’re right ,Some female must have gave Cain a Nod.
To: miliantnutcase
Yeah. I know the nerve of some people to post Helen Thomas pics. BTW, the title refers only to the claim of a researcher who hopes to prove his theory. I suppose Professor hopes to discover proof of interbreeding of Humans-Neanderthals isn't quite as catchy.
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posted on
10/26/2009 3:43:19 PM PDT
by
Dysart
To: Dysart
28
posted on
10/26/2009 3:43:33 PM PDT
by
cvq3842
(A fool and his liberty are soon parted.)
To: starlifter
You just had to go there, didn’t you?
29
posted on
10/26/2009 3:43:46 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
All I want is scientific accuracy...
30
posted on
10/26/2009 3:44:56 PM PDT
by
starlifter
(Sapor Amo Pullus)
To: Dysart
31
posted on
10/26/2009 3:45:29 PM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: Dysart
32
posted on
10/26/2009 3:45:46 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: donhunt
We had a guy in high school who played defensive nose guard that had to be part Neanderthal.
33
posted on
10/26/2009 3:46:01 PM PDT
by
Busywhiskers
("Once you have wrestled, everything else in life is easy" -Dan Gable)
To: Bon mots
" I dunno......aw heck...I'd Hit it!With a club. " Modern-day relative?...
34
posted on
10/26/2009 3:46:01 PM PDT
by
OldDeckHand
(No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
To: Larry Lucido; Cagey; MotleyGirl70
FRANK: So, who’s having sex with the hen? ... Something’s missing!
MRS. ROSS: Something’s missing all right.
35
posted on
10/26/2009 3:46:06 PM PDT
by
earlJam
To: Dysart
Modern man had sex with Neanderthals
"Giggety giggety!"
36
posted on
10/26/2009 3:46:28 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: Lazamataz
Even your ancestors hit it.
To: Dysart
“The phenomenon is already seen in modern animals such as horses and zebras, and lions and tigers, but resulting offspring have always been infertile.”
Telegraph writers once again are entirely unacquainted with REALITY.
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.
38
posted on
10/26/2009 3:47:18 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
To: Dysart
39
posted on
10/26/2009 3:47:36 PM PDT
by
Walrus
(My congressman is toast in 2010 --- how about yours?)
To: Dysart
40
posted on
10/26/2009 3:49:14 PM PDT
by
Manic_Episode
(Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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