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When humans broke off sex with neanderthals
Fox News ^ | October 05, 2012 | Charles Choi

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: evolution; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
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 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Clearly if someone's sex was being broken off, it was the Neandertal female involved.

Thanks wildbill and a fool in paradise.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


81 posted on 10/05/2012 5:39:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

This whole premise is BS. My ex-wife (a human) says she is sure that I am a Neanderthal and we had sex 25 years ago (once).


82 posted on 10/05/2012 5:46:36 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
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To: ExCTCitizen
Liberals, Socialists and Marxists are not neanderthals...they're gay.

Cave men are a lot of things...but they are not gay. They're not even happy.;-)

83 posted on 10/05/2012 5:50:26 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
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To: RoosterRedux

That makes me feel better. I am Euro-American and love my steaks rare. Guess I have 4% Neanderthal.


84 posted on 10/05/2012 6:19:10 PM PDT by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: RoosterRedux

That makes me feel better. I am Euro-American and love my steaks rare. Guess I have 4% Neanderthal.


85 posted on 10/05/2012 6:19:23 PM PDT by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: RoosterRedux

That makes me feel better. I am Euro-American and love my steaks rare. Guess I have 4% Neanderthal.


86 posted on 10/05/2012 6:19:23 PM PDT by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: RoosterRedux

That makes me feel better. I am Euro-American and love my steaks rare. Guess I have 4% Neanderthal.


87 posted on 10/05/2012 6:19:39 PM PDT by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: RoosterRedux

That makes me feel better. I am Euro-American and love my steaks rare. Guess I have 4% Neanderthal.


88 posted on 10/05/2012 6:20:16 PM PDT by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: RoosterRedux

That makes me feel better. I am Euro-American and love my steaks rare. Guess I have 4% Neanderthal.


89 posted on 10/05/2012 6:20:41 PM PDT by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: RoosterRedux

That makes me feel better. I am Euro-American and love my steaks rare. Guess I have 4% Neanderthal.


90 posted on 10/05/2012 6:20:41 PM PDT by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: RoosterRedux

That makes me feel better. I am Euro-American and love my steaks rare. Guess I have 4% Neanderthal.


91 posted on 10/05/2012 6:21:05 PM PDT by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: RoosterRedux

That makes me feel better. I am Euro-American and love my steaks rare. Guess I have 4% Neanderthal.


92 posted on 10/05/2012 6:21:39 PM PDT by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: RoosterRedux

That makes me feel better. I am Euro-American and love my steaks rare. Guess I have 4% Neanderthal.


93 posted on 10/05/2012 6:22:01 PM PDT by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: Revolting cat!

So much for evolution...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC6vZOgYduk


94 posted on 10/05/2012 6:30:14 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG ... there is no such thing as coincidence)
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To: ZULU

Well...you can say that again. I like my steaks Pittsburgh rare!


95 posted on 10/05/2012 6:39:45 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
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To: Chuckster

Two excellent reasons to stop having sex with neanderthal females.


96 posted on 10/05/2012 6:45:11 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: ZULU

“Guess I have 4% Neanderthal”

Yes - you have the triploid-posting gene sequence.

Maybe it’s the knuckles, eh?


97 posted on 10/05/2012 6:56:01 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: headsonpikes; ZULU

Darn knuckle typer.


98 posted on 10/05/2012 7:04:22 PM PDT by Betis70 ("Leading from Behind" gets your Ambassador killed)
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To: Domestic Church

Your 1st grade child made that video?


99 posted on 10/05/2012 7:35:25 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: RoosterRedux

:’D


100 posted on 10/05/2012 7:50:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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