When humans broke off sex with neanderthals

Fox News ^ | October 05, 2012 | Charles Choi

[Sopater]

Neanderthals apparently last interbred with the ancestors of today's Europeans after modern humans with advanced stone tools expanded out of Africa, researchers say. The last sex between Neanderthals and modern humans likely occurred as recently as 47,000 years ago, the researchers added.

Modern humans once shared the globe with now-departed human lineages, including the Neanderthals, our closest known extinct relatives. Neanderthals had been around for about 30,000 years when modern humans appeared in the fossil record about 200,000 years ago. Neanderthals disappeared about 30,000 year ago.

In 2010, scientists completed the first sequence of the Neanderthal genome using DNA extracted from fossils, and an examination of the genetic material suggested that modern humans' ancestors occasionally successfully interbred with Neanderthals. Recent estimates reveal that Neanderthal DNA makes up 1 percent to 4 percent of modern Eurasian genomes, perhaps endowing some people with the robust immune systems they enjoy today.

[Kartographer]

"Sorry I maybe a caveman, but I ain't easy."

[Telepathic Intruder]

Unless there was a lot of cheap whiskey around 30,000 years ago, waking up next to a neanderthal woman was probably a rare event.

[Revolting cat!]

See my # 15, you have to say that you’d never say, whatever you then cite.

[Revolting cat!]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEep67akIn4

[TigersEye]

Neanderthals died of broken hearts.

[Tax-chick]

I can’t speak for other ladies, of course, but I certainly wouldn’t settle for a man who couldn’t offer an up-to-date stone washer-dryer and vacuum cleaner.

[Peter ODonnell]

Neanderthals are doing okay in my home town.

[a fool in paradise]

Differ'nt strokes fer differ'nt folks...

[tanknetter]

I don’t know ... Young men will “hit” just about anything that moves. What’s the guilty/not guilty ratio on all the naughty teacher threads again?

[Fledermaus]

Pretty sure I’ve had sex with some of their women back in my college days.

[waterhill]

It was something I said, about a month ago.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I'm just...like...not into you anymore.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’ll call you. In about 20,000 years.
After we invent the telephone.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

You owe me a monitor!

Nominated for “Best Post of Thread”.

[morphing libertarian]

My sister is still having sex with a Neanderthal.

[JoeProBono]

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Never have gone to bed with a Neanderthal, but I’ve woke up next to quite a few of them!

[mountainlion]

There is no scientific consensus that humans lived at the same time as the neanderthals let alone had sex with them. This must therefore be sarcasm.

[ontap]

Before humans broke off sex with neanderthals:

[JaguarXKE]

No, they continued on to eventually form the Democrat Party!