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 ...
Boom boom alackalacka boom boom,
Boom boom alackalacka BOOM boom...
Guilty. But I was really hammered.
With Bill Clinton you have to cover all the possibilites!
para what?
WTF is that?
I'm okay with that, as long as she doesn't talk.
And primitive woman.
Ok..so now we know where liberals came from.
Doesn’t surprise me a bit. Modern women have always preferred real men (i.e., the ones that can turn a wrench, that don’t wear their ‘feelings’ on their sleeve, and support America for what it stands for, rather than some alien party now running it).
It was probably no different in the stone age.
With Bill Clinton you never can tell unless you cover all the possibilities!
They always toss in this chestnut.
More apropos is the fact that nearly every bison [Family: Bovidae; Subfamily: Bovinae; Genus: Bison; species: bison] in the U.S. (Wind Cave National Park has the only genetically pure bison herd) carries cattle [Family: Bovidae; Subfamily: Bovinae; Genus: Bos; Species: B. primigenius; Subspecies: B. p. taurus, B. p. indicus] genes.
On top of that, though rare, mules and hinneys have been documented to have bred sucessfully.
[Wikipedia] The surviving species are the American bison, Bison bison (with two subspecies, the plains bison, Bison bison bison, and the wood bison, Bison bison athabascae), found in North America, and the European bison, or wisent (Bison bonasus), found in Europe and the Caucasus. While these species are usually grouped into their own genus, they are sometimes included in the closely related genus Bos,[1] together with cattle, gaur, kouprey and yaks, with which bison can interbreed.
Just like the old days when some seemingly improbable news story would come out to help Clinton out of a jam.
Although, why The Telegraph or Amy Willis would want to help Steve Phillips out is beyond me.
Yes, I read that paragraph three times initially, thinking it was erroneous. Someone else here pointed it out earlier. I can see a journalist making the goof but a little surprised an editor didn’t, well, edit it.
I thought Bill Clinton denied having sex with that woman.
So has someone had sex with Helen Thomas?
And Obama is proof of it!
HA. Creative humor with both a political and timely sports tie-in...excellent.
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