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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If Asians do better in math and science than others, did Neanderthals have higher IQ?
WE ARE DEVO!
This smells like fake science to me. I believe that Neanderthals are humans and humans are Neanderthals. My guess is that the Neanderthal term was created by “fake scientists” to try to bridge the gap between apes and humans. At the most, Neanderthals were probably just another human race like whites, blacks, hispanics, asians, etc. But then again, I believe the Bible and that God created Adam and Eve. So, that just makes me an another ignoramus doofus to fake scientists.
Duh!
No TV or video games. What did they expect?
They may not sat around watching TV or playing video games but they did apparently spend hours watching meat cooking.
Hey, I spend hours watching meat cook.
Which came first watching meat cook or beer?
And talk was small when they talked at all
They both knew what they wanted
There was no need to talk about it
They were old enough to scope it out
And keep it loose
She said, “You don’t look like my type
But I guess you’ll do”
Third rate romance
Low rent rendezvous
And he said, “I’ll even tell you that I love you
If you want me to”
Third rate romance
Really, there’s evidence right in front of us. Take Occasional-Cortex or Maxine Waters. To be that stupid one if not both of their parents had to have been Neanderthals.
In before the Helen Thomas evidence....
“Further investigation shows that the Neanderthals genome is carried by only, guess who/what— democRATS”
FUNNY!
“Which came first watching meat cook or beer?”
Silly boy, all know it was beer from whence civilization sprang.
Some gals have a thing for big boned guys.
Troglodyte - Jimmy Castor Bunch
What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time.
When the only people that existed were troglodytes... Cave men...
Cave women... Neanderthal... Troglodytes.
Let’s take the average Cave man at home, listening to his stereo. Sometimes he’d get up,
Try to do his thing. He’d begin to move, something like this:
“Dance... dance”.
When he got tired of dancing alone, he’d look
In the mirror: “Gotta find a woman gotta find a woman gotta find a
Woman gotta find a woman”. He’d go down to the lake where all the Woman would be swimming or washing clothes or something. He’d look Around and just reach in and grab one. “Come here... come here”.
He’d grab her by the hair. You can’t do that today, fellas, cause
It might come off. You’d have a piece of hair in your hand and she’d
Be swimming away from you (ha-ha). This one woman just lay there, Wet and frightened. He said: “Move... move”. She got up.
She was a Big woman. Big woman. Her name was Bertha. Bertha Butt. She was one Of the Butt sisters.
He didn’t care. He looked up at her and said:
“Sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me Sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me! “.
She looked down on him.
She was ready to crush him, but she began to like him. She said
(Falsetto):
“I’ll sock it to ya, Daddy”.
He said: “Wha?”. She said (falsetto):
“I’ll sock it to ya, Daddy”.
You know what he said? He started it way
Back then. I wouldn’t lie to you. When she said (falsetto)
“I’ll sock it to ya, Daddy” he said “Right on! Right on! Hotpants!
Hotpants! Ugh... Ugh... Ugh”.
Thanks ETL. Just stay off the track of Hattie's shack, in the back of the black bayou.
KEYWORDS: neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthalsThe 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
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