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Neanderthals and modern humans mated 50,000 years earlier than we thought, scientists say.
CS Monitor ^ | 02/20/2016 | By Eva Botkin-Kowacki,

Posted on 02/21/2016 5:06:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/21/2016 5:06:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind; SunkenCiv
But here's the catch: Homo sapiens supposedly didn't trek out of Africa until around 60,000 years ago. And Neanderthal DNA appears in living modern humans with heritage from every part of the world except Africa, suggesting the groups did not mix until they left the continent.

So these new findings suggest that some modern humans might have left Africa before 100,000 years ago.

2 posted on 02/21/2016 5:12:07 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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>>> Neanderthals and modern humans mated 50,000 years earlier than we thought, scientists say. <<<

Yes, and the result becomes visible in every presidential election season.


3 posted on 02/21/2016 5:14:20 AM PST by JJ_Folderol (If Trump wants my vote he can buy it like an honest politician would.)
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To: PIF

Old theory is wrong. They must get new theory........


4 posted on 02/21/2016 5:15:43 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: JJ_Folderol

Even with a 50,000 year more of a head start than previously assumed !


5 posted on 02/21/2016 5:18:35 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: JJ_Folderol

You shoulda met our high school football coach...
We called him “Fuzzy.”


6 posted on 02/21/2016 5:18:54 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Red Badger

Reading the article further on a guy says that Modern Human and Neanderthal are the same species, differently adapted and may be a subspecies, else there could be no interbreeding.

Theories are always being proven wrong, or incomplete ... new theory = new grant.


7 posted on 02/21/2016 5:19:20 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Red Badger

That’s how science is supposed to work.

Now the fact that the overall global temperature hasn’t gone up over the past 15 years ago despite an ever increase (still minute) in atmospheric CO2 should prompt science to throw out the old theory and come up with a new one. But that would dry up all the grant money form the rich and powerful who want to use the scare to get more control.

But seriously, when old facts are proven wrong, or new evidence appears, I would expect to see new theories replace the old ones that have, because of new evidence, been proven wrong. And if this didn’t happen, you’d be reading this in your log hut by the fireplace on your hand written piece of slate.


8 posted on 02/21/2016 5:21:52 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: SeekAndFind

Are these the same scientists that say we’re somehow related to frogs?


9 posted on 02/21/2016 5:22:44 AM PST by laweeks
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To: SeekAndFind

Nothing ever changes.Lower species always try to breed up.


10 posted on 02/21/2016 5:25:26 AM PST by Farmer Dean
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To: SeekAndFind

They are still around today, they are Democrats. Hillary is the leader along with Bernie, they are both older than Neanderthals, thou. LOL


11 posted on 02/21/2016 5:26:52 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve got an aunt on my Dad’s side that we suspect mated earlier than claimed as well. But not by 50,000 years!


12 posted on 02/21/2016 5:28:30 AM PST by JoeDetweiler
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To: SeekAndFind

Misconception that neanderthals were stupid dumb savages are wrong


13 posted on 02/21/2016 5:31:20 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s a model of a Neanderthal I’ve seen that has red hair and light eyes. She looks a lot like our daughter. I’ve read that the “ginger” gene and maybe allergies come from Neanderthals.


14 posted on 02/21/2016 5:34:49 AM PST by Mercat
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t we, as FReepers, have an obligation to make a passing remark about Laz and hittin’ it here?


15 posted on 02/21/2016 5:36:01 AM PST by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: Mercat

Because of the way the larynx is positioned in the Neanderthal throat, they had high voices and ‘sang soprano’ and may have ‘sung,’ not in words, which would have been difficult, but in tones ... places with naturally resonating harmonics would have been important to them, if the preceding is true, as such properties amplify and modulate tones.


16 posted on 02/21/2016 5:41:47 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: SeekAndFind

How do they know the...event didn’t happen in Africa rather than Siberia?


17 posted on 02/21/2016 5:42:43 AM PST by Buttons12
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18 posted on 02/21/2016 5:45:00 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: PIF

Wow. I had never heard of that. Thanks.


19 posted on 02/21/2016 5:45:37 AM PST by Mercat
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To: BBB333

His ancestors prolly did it. And bless them for incorporating the good genes.


20 posted on 02/21/2016 5:47:38 AM PST by mcshot (The "Greatest Generation" would never have allowed the trashing of our Republic.)
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