[Renfield]

Vindija Cave, Croatia. Tomislav Kranjcic, Wikimedia Commons

Home sweet home! This one looks pretty nice, as caves go. I've been in a lot that were rough as a cob.

[Renfield]

Ping.

[Rich21IE]

Proving once again that science is a load of crap; I just saw a show on the History channel where they claimed DNA studies disproved any cross-breeding or common ancestry. Obviously they don’t know what they’re talking about. But it doesn’t matter..........its all about selling books and t.v. shows.

[Vaquero]

This scientific paper will get the race baiters up in arms

paging Professor Wolpoff....paging Professor Milford Wolpoff...

[PapaBear3625]

What they found was a number of genetic variants in regions along the genome that both Neandertals and modern humans shared as a result of positive natural selection, "including genes involved in metabolism and in cognitive and skeletal development"

In other words, there are distinct genetic differences between African and non-African populations, and these differences include genes that affect IQ. The researchers better be prepared to be burned at the stake once these findings are absorbed by the general public.

[the invisib1e hand]

Neandertal-yutes alert.

[the invisib1e hand]

Its a nice entrance, but i prefer the gothic arch.

[count-your-change]

“Any canoodling, then, may have actually started before the two species encountered each other in what is now present-day Europe or West Asia.”

How could they canoodle without actually encountering one another? Long distance canoodling? Internet Canoodling?

Ugly as those Neanderthal guys were it would take more than just canoodling, maybe some cave drawings and dino beer, before he proposed a little gene mixing with those uppity sapien girls.

[Marylander]

Bump

[The Sons of Liberty]

May be coincidence, but those with Neanderthal heritage are advanced technological societies. Those without, still live basically the way they did thousands of years ago.

[BenLurkin]

canoodling

Is that the new scientific term for miscegenation?

[Mariner]

White people have Neanderthal genes and black people don't?

Maybe someday science will be able to tell us if this has anything to do with the differences in social developments...farming...cities...armies etc.

All these things began to emerge as Neanderthal was disappearing.

[bunkerhill7]

One very busy neanderthal guy fertilized millions of homo sapien women.

[varmintman]

You might want to look at post 29 as well. The Neanderthal was a bipedal and 100% carniverous ice-age ape with an 8” fur coat and huge eyes for nocturnal hunting. The sum total of genetic content from Neanderthals in modern humans is zero.

[chesley]

I remember that when I first started reading about this on FR that the DNA was showing that modern humans and Neaderthals couldn’t interbreed. The ‘boners; held out that they could.

Wonder what the next twist will be?