Posted on 02/21/2015 9:25:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv
In 2010, scientists made a startling discovery about our past: About 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of living Europeans and Asians.
Now two teams of researchers have come to another intriguing conclusion: Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of Asians at a second point in history, giving them an extra infusion of Neanderthal DNA.
The findings are further evidence that our genomes contain secrets about our evolution that we might have missed by looking at fossils alone. "We're learning new, big-picture things from the genetic data, rather than just filling in details," said Kirk E. Lohmueller, a geneticist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and co-author of one of the new studies.
The oldest fossils of Neanderthals date back about 200,000 years, while the most recent are an estimated 40,000 years old. Researchers have found Neanderthal bones at sites across Europe and western Asia, from Spain to Siberia.
Some of those bones still retain fragments of Neanderthal DNA. Scientists have pieced those DNA fragments together, reconstructing the entire Neanderthal genome. It turns out that Neanderthals had a number of distinct genetic mutations that living humans lack.
Today, people who are not of African descent have stretches of genetic material almost identical to Neanderthal DNA, comprising about 2 percent of their entire genomes. These DNA fragments are the evidence that Neanderthals interbred with the early migrants out of Africa, likely in western Asia.
Researchers also have found a peculiar pattern in non-Africans: People in China, Japan and other East Asian countries have about 20 percent more Neanderthal DNA than do Europeans.
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Chinese passengers wait on a train platform at the Beijing Railway Station. Researchers have discovered that Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of Asians at two points in history, giving this population an extra infusion of Neanderthal DNA. Credit European Pressphoto Agency
Thanks for the link goes out to, well, you know who you are. ;')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
Jimmy Buffet comes to mind. “why don’t we just get drunk and screw” there’s a lot to to be said about attractive asian women.
This past week again, I read that Europeans have the largest amount...now, this.
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
(Genesis 6:1-4)
Neanderthals interbred with Asians and Europeans...but not Africans. Why?
Racism.
Neanderthals were clearly racist and therefore deserve to be extinct!
Just goes to prove that regardless of what type; humans only do two things well, F#CK and FIGHT.
I believe the method for transferring Neanderthal DNA was portayed in a couple scenes in Quest For Fire... the scene down by the stream comes to mind.
Ummmm. I learned how DNA was spread as a young buck. Did my best to help in the day. I should have asked for a government grant.
Confucius say man who go to same woman 2 times get Twice Cooked Chicken for dinner.
Contrary to the popular perception, Neanderthal DNA may turn out to be a good thing. Those races with more of it tend to have a higher IQ. The Neanderthals may have been tougher and smarter than given credit for.
I’ll wager that Norwegians have the highest amount. I’ve seen some that could literally be mistaken for Neanderthals.
Uh-oh, don’t get blam started on the Norwegians. ;’)
They had larger brains, that is, the range of size of the N brain started and ended higher, with a lot of overlap. :’)
See my post #12 — may not be a bad thing.
One from column a, two from column b.
I was thinking that we *just had* a topic about this, and the one I found wasn’t the one I remembered.
Probably the Neandertals invented sex tourism.
This becomes an interesting supporting detail for racial differences having been spawned in part by inter-species breeding, in addition to a small population isolated for thousands of years of inbreeding after the Mount Tuba eruption.
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