Posted on 11/29/2018 2:49:48 PM PST by ETL
Way more sex happened between Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans across Europe and Asia than scientists originally thought, a new study finds.
Scientists initially thought that interbreeding among the two groups was more isolated to a particular place and time — specifically, when they encountered each other in western Eurasia shortly after modern humans left Africa. This idea stemmed from the fact that the genomes of modern humans from outside Africa are only about 2 percent Neanderthal, on average.
Subsequent research, however, has found that Neanderthal ancestry is 12 to 20 percent higher in modern East Asians compared to modern Europeans. [In Images: The First Bone from a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid]
"There's been a lot of debate as to why East Asians seem to have a bit more Neanderthal ancestry than Europeans," said senior study author Joshua Schraiber, a population geneticist at Temple University in Philadelphia. "There've been two competing ideas. One is that East Asians happen to interbreed more with Neanderthals. The other is that, of the multiple ancestral populations of Europeans, one had very little Neanderthal ancestry, diluting the [overall] Neanderthal contribution."
To shed light on this question of interbreeding, scientists developed computer simulations that modeled how DNA would get shared during a range of numbers of encounters between modern humans and Neanderthals. Then, they looked into which models best fit modern human genetic databases.
The researchers suggested the patterns of Neanderthal DNA inheritance seen in modern humans are best explained by not one, but multiple, independent episodes of interbreeding between Neanderthal and modern humans, first and foremost in the Middle East, but also later in both Europe and East Asia.
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They still do!..................
I know it’s true because I saw it on the Jersey Shore show.
Well, I’m not talkin bout locking down forever, baby.
That would be too demanding.
I’m just talkin bout two lonely people
who might reach a little understanding.
Way more sex happened between Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans across Europe and Asia than scientists originally thought, a new Hawvid University study finds.
Further investigation shows that the Neanderthals genome is carried by only, guess who/what— democRATS
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Neanderthals ARE humans!
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Was it conquest rape, or a romantic prehistoric sock hop?
I remember a few times at closing time…
…never mind.
Neanderthal dna is what sent men to the moon and made Western civilization great (now in the past tense )
I’ve heard it said that there *are* women who like guys with a hairy back.
Which Hip-hop Miscreant came up with that Emmy awarding gem?
I don’t think it was always consensual...
...either way.
Toby Keith
“Are we not men? “
Like Elizabeth Warren?
“Well, I’m not talkin bout locking down forever, baby. That would be too demanding. I’m just talkin bout two lonely people who might reach a little understanding.”
Which Hip-hop Miscreant came up with that Emmy awarding gem?
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Toby Keith
Only if they also have "CASH".
I think Barbara Bach started out as neanderthal.
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