Posted on 06/17/2024 7:25:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Most people alive today carry traces of genes inherited from Neanderthals -- the enduring legacy of prehistoric hookups with our extinct cousins. But researchers have long debated when and where that mingling happened, and whether these were one-off romps or commonplace trysts. Now, an analysis of ancient and modern genomes suggests contemporary people's Neanderthal DNA came from a single, prolonged period of mixing some 47,000 years ago...
To do that, Priya Moorjani, a population geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues analyzed previously sequenced genomes from 59 ancient H. sapiens, mostly from Western Europe and Asia, dating from between 45,000 and 2200 years ago. The oldest included DNA from Ust'-Ishim man in western Siberia (45,000 years old), the Czech Republic's Zlatý kůň woman (45,000 years old), and individuals from Bulgaria's Bacho Kiro caves (35,000 to 45,000 years old) and Romania's Peștera cu Oase caves (40,000 years old).
The researchers next identified regions of Neanderthal DNA in these ancient modern human genomes and in genomes from 275 present-day individuals from around the globe. Then, they used computer software to track the evolution of Neanderthal genes over time across the various ancient and recent populations, estimating approximately how many generations would be needed for the genomes to subtly diverge the way they did. Because the team included the ancient H. sapiens genomes, their analysis reached a level of precision that simply wasn't possible in earlier studies based primarily on contemporary genomes, McCoy notes.
Moorjani and colleagues conclude in the preprint that Neanderthal genes began flowing into the ancestors of people alive today about 47,000 years ago.
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Back in June 2022, New York Governor Hock-a-loogie called pro-lifers Neanderthals.
You have quotation marks but no attribution.
The smart girls didn't and don't now.
I don’t know anything about black lesbians in the WNBA, but if their ancestry is all black, then they are not Neanderthal. Aparently people from Africa show no traces of Neanderthal mixing. Any “black” person with Neanderthal genes got them from a white person.
It’s not my remark but heard it from about seventy percent of the NCO’s that I served with in the USAF and Army.
I have strong thoughts in that direction also.
Not easy on the eyes tho'.
Was it really necessary to mention me by name?
😅
And thus began the N(eanderthal) Football League?
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