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Study of ancient skulls sheds light on human interbreeding with Neandertals
Phys dot org ^ | August 23, 2022 | Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University

Posted on 08/24/2022 11:15:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

For this study, the researchers collected data on craniofacial morphology from the published literature. This ultimately resulted in a data set including 13 Neandertals, 233 prehistoric Homo sapiens, and 83 modern humans.

The researchers focused on standard craniofacial measurements, which are reproducible, and used those measurements to assess the size and shape of key facial structures. This then allowed the researchers to do an in-depth analysis to determine whether a given human population was likely to have interbred with Neandertal populations, as well as the extent of that likely interbreeding.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; morphology; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; phrenology
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To: SunkenCiv

If we can interbreed…. We are the same species.


21 posted on 08/24/2022 11:47:56 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: SunkenCiv

Is that Fetterman?


22 posted on 08/24/2022 11:48:03 AM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up!)
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To: SunkenCiv

“We know there was interbreeding. Modern Asian populations seem to have more Neandertal DNA than modern European populations, which is weird—because Neandertals lived in what is now Europe.”

SOME Neanderthals lived in Europe. They also lived in the fertile crescent, which is exactly where you would have to pass through if you were migrating via land from Africa to Asia. Who writes this crap?


23 posted on 08/24/2022 11:48:24 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SunkenCiv

Interbreeding as in dating, or as in rape-rape?


24 posted on 08/24/2022 11:52:49 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: M Kehoe

Now, there were some that I should have requested a DNA profile...

The CCP would be most pleased if you’d send it in, since they do all the matching for the American companies.


25 posted on 08/24/2022 11:53:15 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: cowboyusa

Could be, since the original image had a man bun - before some one chopped it off.


26 posted on 08/24/2022 11:54:43 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SunkenCiv

I thought we got rid of the term ‘Neandertals’, and returned to Neanderthals.
What the H is going on here?


27 posted on 08/24/2022 11:56:08 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“Interbreeding as in dating, or as in rape-rape?”

More like forming acquaintances a million or so years before Edison invented the light bulb.


28 posted on 08/24/2022 12:08:36 PM PDT by tsomer
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To: SunkenCiv

Not going to make the unladylike comment that is racing around my brain. Y’all will just have to wonder.

‘Face

;o]


29 posted on 08/24/2022 12:13:24 PM PDT by Monkey Face ( ~~ Life gets better when you start forgiving the people who never apologized. ~~ )
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To: SunkenCiv

Genesis 25:24 When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25 The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau. 27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents


30 posted on 08/24/2022 12:22:34 PM PDT by Paperpusher (Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.)
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To: SunkenCiv
NATUFIAN CULTURE (12,500-9500 B.C.)

"The Natufian culture refers to most hunter-gatherers who lived in modern-day Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria approximately 11,500 to 15,000 years ago. They were among the first people to build permanent houses and cultivate edible plants. The advancements they achieved are believed to have been crucial to the development of agriculture during the time periods that followed them."

Images Of Natufians

31 posted on 08/24/2022 12:35:45 PM PDT by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

they mention interbreeding like the females had a choice.....


32 posted on 08/24/2022 12:37:59 PM PDT by cherry
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for posting this-it torches the belief popular until a few decades ago that those mean old prehistoric Homo Sapiens/Modern humans killed and replaced the poor Neanderthals. Like it or not-that didn’t happen and they are us/we are them-apparently, prehistoric people liked to trade and breed with exotic foreigners when they got the chance-we still do.

Shouldn’t Neanderthals be just another race of human, rather than a separate species? There are people-business owners, neighbors, etc out here who look a lot like those two Neanderthals pictured-there is a concrete contractor I’ve worked with who looks like the guy, wide face and all-he has a Slavic-sounding last name-and he is definitely human...


33 posted on 08/24/2022 12:56:45 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: SunkenCiv

Doubt Neanderthals were a different species. They actually look like my husband’s great uncles: Huge foreheads and barrel skulls.


34 posted on 08/24/2022 12:57:09 PM PDT by madison10 (Eat meat!)
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To: central_va; Lazamataz

Laz would hit it.


35 posted on 08/24/2022 1:29:15 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: cherry

If those people were anything like the tribes/groups we have some history on not long after-that probably depended on the status of that female’s family in the group/tribe-if they were leaders/had lots of stuff to trade, then a man would probably have to take her into his home/tribe and maybe pay in goods-or no sex. If she was just from a family of no influence, the guy might just tumble her in the bushes with or without permission...

Either way it happened, I doubt that mutual attraction was involved most of the time-not fun to be a female...


36 posted on 08/24/2022 1:32:28 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Persevero

Dogs, wolves and coyotes interbreed and produce fertile offspring.


37 posted on 08/24/2022 2:40:45 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“ This helps to explain Jerry Nadler.”

Nothing, NOTHING explains Jerry Nadler.


38 posted on 08/24/2022 2:41:56 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: cherry
they mention interbreeding like the females had a choice.....

They probably did. Not in all cases of course but in most.

39 posted on 08/24/2022 2:44:01 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: SunkenCiv

Based on the anatomy studied so far the average Neanderthal would have competed well with today’s Olympic weightlifters and probably would have won the shot put competition. The adhesion scars on the bones suggest huge muscles.


40 posted on 08/24/2022 2:46:21 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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