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Posted on 10/05/2012 12:48:49 PM PDT by 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.
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I’m not sure I agree with the headline - I know a guy who dates a girl with a tatoo.
I read something similar to that about 40 years ago, where a Rabbi scholar wrote that the “giants” meant the “hairy ones,” speculating that they were remnant Neanderthals.
Don't Panic.
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Michelle did what?
Once you move to the other side of the elephant tracks, you just can't slum it and go back.
Here's another one Canaan bush, cannabis.
when the last one died???
Females are naturally attracted to more angular, bigger boned males so it would make some sense for a greater percentage of our females to be attracted to neanderthals than our males. However, in those times females had less of a choice of who they mated with and force often determined who got with who.
Until humans developed better weapons, neanderthals were stronger and more likely to steal our women. Humans were far less likely to attack the bigger neanderthals for their women. Also, their women were less attractive to us and harder to control with force.
If they did, why are there LIBERALS, SOCIALISTS and MARXISTS?
It had something to do with the first headache.
I can tell yir a Dirty ole man.. :)
——The last sex between Neanderthals and modern humans likely occurred as recently as 47,000 years ago,-——
Bull crap....it was 46,950 years ago..../ S
Having sex doesn’t matter...getting pregnant does...to extend your genes pool...
How can anyone with a straight face claim which people stopped having sex...
The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
Nope, it was a month ago....
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