Neanderthals are part of the human family

Access Research Network Science Literature ^ | 05/14/2010 | David Tyler

[al baby]

Just look at first woonkie

[kbennkc]

This suggests that early modern humans interbred with Neandertals

We only had a few drinks.

[Lobsterback]

Hey man, its all good.

[twhitak]

I think they meant "Neanderthals are part of the first family."

[pillut48]

Jean "Clan of the Cave Bear" Auel was right ping!

That picture looks like Mel Brooks! Maybe it's from "PRE-History of the World, Part 1"??? ;-)

[raygunfan]

nyaaah nyaaaah, we yec’s were there first....

[YHAOS]

The pic looks like Mel Brooks

[InternetTuffGuy]

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I think they meant “Neanderthals are part of the first family.”

1)Well, what can I say ? The evidence went from “slam dunk” similarity between Chimps and Humans, to almost a complete turnaround to their being growing compelling evidence for individuality of genomes. I hope people will understand my reservations with this Neanderthal study a little more clearly now.

2) If one were to read Young Earth sites like Answers In Genesis and Institute for Creation Research, one would learn that have been saying for decades that Neanderthals were normal human beings with Rickets disease and existed as separate colonies from humans, much like leper colonies.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

What about democrats?

[muawiyah]

When they found that Neanderthals had the same gene sequence necessary to produce red hair, light skin tone and blue eyes, that pretty well knocked aside the whole idea that they weren't as fully human as anyone else.

It also made it clear that they were probably still around and well mixed into the European peoples.

Red/Yellow pigment is still rare among East Asians, and although they have lighter skin tones than more Tropical peoples, it's through an entirely different set of changes than those of the Europeans

All things considered it's entirely possible that the Europeans have more Neanderthal background than they do recent African background.

This would divide humanity into two current major strains ~ Africans, and Neanderthals, with blends existing elsewhere, e.g. in Eastasia.

This is not an original idea ~ more or less the way paleontologists were looking at things up to as recently as 1970.

[JRandomFreeper]

Neanderthals are part of the human family

Just in the brother-in-law ranks though, for some curious reason.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Dey speak yiddish?! Who knew?!

/johnny

[o_zarkman44]

Prime example lives in the White House

[YHAOS]

"What about democrats?"

There is no explanation for them. Some things are too irrational for any accounting.

[fight_truth_decay]

This theme is picked up in the pages of New Scientist, and especially noteworthy

The IPCC's reliance on Hasnain's 1999 interview with NS has was highlighted by Fred Pearce, the journalist who carried out the original interview for the New Scientist-World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown.

[allmendream]

The DNA evidence of our common descent with chimps has only grown stronger after sequencing the genome, so your reservations about this story are based upon a misconception.

Rickets. LOL. Yeah. Like leper colonies. In the stone age. With dinosaurs presumably?

According to both morphology and DNA, neanderthals are distinctly not homo sapiens.

[muawiyah]

The MtDNA had little relationship to modern human MTDNA, but now we are talking about the genome inside the cells ~ not just the mitochondria.

The Neanderthals are exceedingly closely related to Europeans and Eastasians.

[allmendream]

In this chart they are still "off the map", not homo sapiens.