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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

81 posted on 10/26/2009 4:24:02 PM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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To: Dysart

Boom boom alackalacka boom boom,
Boom boom alackalacka BOOM boom...


82 posted on 10/26/2009 4:24:55 PM PDT by dangus (Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
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To: Dysart

Guilty. But I was really hammered.


83 posted on 10/26/2009 4:25:43 PM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (Eat right...exercise...die anyway.)
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To: mountn man
with or without the makeup?

With Bill Clinton you have to cover all the possibilites!


84 posted on 10/26/2009 4:26:31 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (HARDCORE Redneck)
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To: FredZarguna

para what?

85 posted on 10/26/2009 4:27:00 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Mojave

WTF is that?


86 posted on 10/26/2009 4:27:28 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
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To: Harley
Typical Neanderthal woman circa 2009

I'm okay with that, as long as she doesn't talk.

87 posted on 10/26/2009 4:30:14 PM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (Eat right...exercise...die anyway.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
This is conclusive proof that primitive man had beer.

And primitive woman.

88 posted on 10/26/2009 4:31:04 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart; Allegra; Bender2; Lil'freeper; sauropod

Ok..so now we know where liberals came from.


89 posted on 10/26/2009 4:31:10 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: Dysart

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.


90 posted on 10/26/2009 4:33:42 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Berlin_Freeper
With or without the plastic surgery?

With Bill Clinton you never can tell unless you cover all the possibilities!


91 posted on 10/26/2009 4:34:48 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (HARDCORE Redneck)
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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.

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.

92 posted on 10/26/2009 4:38:03 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (God wants a Liberal or RINO hanging from every tree. Tar & feathers optional extras.)
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To: Dysart

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.


93 posted on 10/26/2009 4:38:41 PM PDT by John W
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To: devane617
Be sure to wear these....
94 posted on 10/26/2009 4:39:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

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.


95 posted on 10/26/2009 4:41:54 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart

I thought Bill Clinton denied having sex with that woman.


96 posted on 10/26/2009 4:43:56 PM PDT by charles1252
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To: Dysart

So has someone had sex with Helen Thomas?


97 posted on 10/26/2009 4:43:57 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Dysart
I never did a Neanderthal, but one or two cro-magons are possible.
98 posted on 10/26/2009 4:44:10 PM PDT by razorback-bert (We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
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To: Dysart

And Obama is proof of it!


99 posted on 10/26/2009 4:44:18 PM PDT by crz
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To: John W

HA. Creative humor with both a political and timely sports tie-in...excellent.


100 posted on 10/26/2009 4:45:50 PM PDT by Dysart
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