Study of ancient skulls sheds light on human interbreeding with Neandertals

Phys dot org ^ | August 23, 2022 | Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University

[Sirius Lee]

Earth girls are easy.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

We do seem to be the sluts of the bipedal mammal world.

Well... maybe not. The gibbon might be.

More study is needed.

I will require a ten million dollar grant to solve this mystery.

[Persevero]

Fair point. Believe they are all ESSENTIALLY the same species though. My opinion they are all descendants of the basic dog in Noah’s ark, with changes brought on by removal of genetic information , not addition.

We can’t reproduce with apes.

People (human beings) can only reproduce with people.

[muir_redwoods]

I just checked.dogs and wolves are the same species. Coyotes, however, are not wolves. Coyotes and wolves are in the same family (Canidae) and genus(Canis), but are separate species, just as foxes and wolves are separate species.

[Persevero]

And coyotes and dogs can/do have sex that results in offspring?

[octex]

Kook up a photo of US Rep Al Green, D-TX.

Definitely a mix... both physical appearance and gray matter.

[octex]

The fiction novel “Clan of the Cave Bear” is a good read about the mixing of two different groups of hominids.

[BiteYourSelf]

Yup.🤔

[BiteYourSelf]

Of course he would.😏

[muir_redwoods]

They do. And the eastern coyote is actually a wolf/coyote hybrid which is why the eastern coyote is so much larger than the western coyote.

[Stanwood_Dave]

Is that where the expression "wrap a flag around her face, and do it for glory," come's from?

After all, inquiring minds want to know?

[SunkenCiv]

;^)

[SunkenCiv]

There’s nothing like the love of a good woman. ;^)

[SunkenCiv]

;^)

[SunkenCiv]

Neandertal is correct.

[SunkenCiv]

They are who we have to thank for the ginger genes. :^)

[SunkenCiv]

In that era, dating consisted of sitting side by side in a field, waiting for the Sun to set, so that the drive-in movie could start. They only lacked the autos and the motion picture technology. Oh, and popcorn.

[SunkenCiv]

It's ironic -- Virchow led the puzzling anti-Neandertal propaganda in the 19th century, and it stuck. In the late 20th c there was that poisonously mouthy jackanapes from Stanford who rejected the anthropological approach (which includes morphology, which was used to create the anti-N myths in the first place) and pushed for DNA studies to "prove" that our Neandertal ancestors were "the village idiot".

By the time the technology made it practical to do the DNA studies, that guy had died (of cancer, I think) and his blatantly racist hand-me-down paradigm was overthrown. One still sees the bias in pointless speculations (in popular journalism and in alleged scholarship) about why or how the N went extinct. They didn't. We're their progeny. This doesn't mean they are our *only* ancestors, it means that they are no more extinct (or no less our ancestors) than the "gracile" remains preferred by the Teadrinkers.

Here's an old fave:

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve
in local libraries

"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]

[SunkenCiv]

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[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Well, that would explain Florida Man.