Clara Amit/Israel Antiquities Authority --The owner of this 55,000-year-old partial skull may have been ready for romance with Neandertals.
Posted on 01/29/2015 1:26:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The discovery of a 55,000-year-old partial skull of a modern human in an Israeli cave, the first sighting of Homo sapiens in this time and place, offers skeletal evidence to support the idea that Neandertals and moderns mated in the Middle East between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago. What's more, the skull could belong to an ancestor of the modern humans who later swept across Europe and Asia and replaced the Neandertals.
The find supports a raft of recent genetic studies. A 2010 analysis, for example, found that up to 2% of the genomes of today's Europeans and Asians consist of Neandertal DNA, a clear sign of at least limited interbreeding in the past. Two years later, scientists compared ancient DNA extracted from Neandertal fossils to that of contemporary modern human populations around the world, concluding that this interbreeding took place in the Middle East, most likely between 47,000 and 65,000 years ago. And last year, a 45,000-year-old modern human found in Siberia, the oldest modern to have its genome sequenced, was revealed to have harbored a little more than 2% Neandertal DNA, allowing researchers to refine the interbreeding event to roughly 50,000 to 60,000 years ago.
From the Neandertal side, this time and place make sense. That's because numerous skeletons dated to that time period have been found in caves in Israel and other parts of the Middle East over the years, and Neandertals were still living in the region as late as 49,000 years ago. Yet the other side of this mating partnership has been conspicuously absent from the fossil record of the Middle East: Although modern humans from Africa appear to have ventured into some of these same caves as early as 120,000 years ago, none have been found after about 80,000 years.
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Clara Amit/Israel Antiquities Authority --The owner of this 55,000-year-old partial skull may have been ready for romance with Neandertals.
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
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The headline made me think it was a story of how muzlims came to be.
M.E. Muslims are still trying to interbreed with farm animals.
No further proof needed to say, conclusively, “ Michael Moore was adopted”!
This was debunked two weeks ago!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep. Explains the existence of muzzies.
“M.E. Muslims are still trying to interbreed with farm animals.”
Well, some animals are ruled “unclean”. so they’re at least working on reducing the practice...
Pointless; they inbreeding now.
Neanderthal chicks are easy.
How so?
They’re not the kind you would want to bring home, though.
Humans and Neandertals likely interbred in Middle East probably in one of those Beirut casinos, probably Casino Du Liban.
What Happens in Beirut Stays in Beirut, well, at least for 60,000 years, anyway.
“Humans and Neandertals likely interbred in Middle East”
Thus the origin of the idea that females were only to be used as “breeding stock”, and not as a help meet for the founding of home and family.
A concept widely embraced by the world of Islam. The entire female gender is given short shrift, being deemed a very inferior sort of human being.
LOL!
And that would be a good place to look, the name Beirut means “the wells”, as in fresh water.
Oh, this is way over my head! But I do know that this story has been debunked.
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