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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: didtheyordidntthey; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; history; modernman; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
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To: Dysart
A pair o' docs:


41 posted on 10/26/2009 3:50:29 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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42 posted on 10/26/2009 3:51:11 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart

Man, no offense, but it looks to me like Professor Paabo has really let himself go. Very poor posture, looks like a classic computer terminal squint. Poor guy needs to get out more.


43 posted on 10/26/2009 3:51:44 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Manic_Episode

George the animal steele! Yeah, the first one looks like he’d eat a turnbuckle.


44 posted on 10/26/2009 3:52:07 PM PDT by IronKros (The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup)
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To: Dysart

****”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.” ***

Oh Sure!

Just another *educated* guess. Seems to me that the only way one could be *sure* is if there were progeny!!

Good grief!!


46 posted on 10/26/2009 3:52:58 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Never give up- Keep Up!!!)
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To: Dysart

I was going to post the following, until I read the posts; you guys have done well putting the appropriate spin on the subject, LOL.

Oh, this is way more than target rich, Prof Paabo could be just the one to answer Douglas Adam’s questions about “Life, the Universe and Everything”… On the other left-hand, why is this even a topic of consideration…in…unless…no wait for it…some are trying to make abnormal or genetic anomalies (abomolies as I like to call them) socially accepted as another species of life…although, the left prefers Darwinism, so I guess the fact that that he does not know, unable to confirm or has no proof; he is another useful idiot in a long line of butt boys trying to gain favor. Leads me to wonder, the purpose of all this…. “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder!”


47 posted on 10/26/2009 3:54:08 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: Manic_Episode

George “The Animal” Steel FTW!


48 posted on 10/26/2009 3:54:46 PM PDT by TV Dinners (Hope is not a Strategy)
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To: Dysart

Well, that certainly explains Helen Thomas. . .


49 posted on 10/26/2009 3:55:07 PM PDT by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
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To: devane617
“Typical Neanderthal women”

Never could convince me any different. Barbara Bach or Raquel Welch in a fur bikini is what I was dreaming about, while my teachers were pushing those stupid books with ape people pictures at us.

50 posted on 10/26/2009 3:56:02 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Dysart

Was it Bertha Butt and the Butt sisters? gotta find a woman gotta find a woman.


51 posted on 10/26/2009 3:56:40 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Romak 7.62X54MM, AK47 7.62X39MM, LARGO 9X23MM, HAPINESS IS A WARM GUN BANG BANG YEA YEA)
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To: Dysart

This is conclusive proof that primitive man had beer.


52 posted on 10/26/2009 3:58:12 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
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53 posted on 10/26/2009 3:58:17 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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To: tired1
It still happens...


54 posted on 10/26/2009 3:58:17 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Keep your powder dry, and your iron hidden.)
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To: Roscoe Karns
From The Vitamin Press

55 posted on 10/26/2009 3:58:46 PM PDT by TheVitaminPress
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To: Dysart

Which was first - the chicken or the egg though? Modern man did not exist before neanderthal. Neanderthals didn’t exist before apes, since we all came from them, right? When did the chicken have sex with the egg? This Evolution stuff is so confusing.


56 posted on 10/26/2009 3:59:10 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Dysart

57 posted on 10/26/2009 3:59:42 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (HARDCORE Redneck)
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To: sodpoodle
Just another *educated* guess. Seems to me that the only way one could be *sure* is if there were progeny!!

It would be proof but that view is complicated by the gene dilution argument.

58 posted on 10/26/2009 4:00:10 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart

I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN!


59 posted on 10/26/2009 4:03:24 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: Dysart

Ok, I got it; it’s another Geico Commercial appealing to the lower beasts of nature. Would explain a lot, since Geico I believe is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.


60 posted on 10/26/2009 4:03:49 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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