Posted on 09/12/2024 2:59:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Discovered in 2015 at the entrance to the Grotte Mandrin rock shelter in the Rhône River valley of southern France, Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — has sometimes been called the "last Neanderthal" because he may have lived as recently as 42,000 years ago, close to when our closest human relatives disappeared. Although only his teeth and portions of the skull have been recovered so far, Thorin's genome was analyzed to better understand when and how Neanderthals disappeared.
In a study published Wednesday (Sept. 11) in the journal Cell Genomics, a team of researchers led by Ludovic Slimak of the Center for Anthropobiology and Genomics of Toulouse, France, detailed their discovery that Thorin came from a lineage of Neanderthals who were isolated for thousands of years, in spite of the fact that other groups lived nearby.
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I agree. And since we carry their (known) DNA, they are our ancestors, and we’re not (yet) extinct, so yeah. :^)
They’re not extinct, they’re our ancestors.
My pleasure. That’s just a selection from a few hundred topics of a few keywords that probably have a thousand or more. :^)
You can thank a Neanderthal for that hairy back of yours.
No one cares.
I went to school with most of the Back family kids, Harry was a few years ahead of me.
Scientists cannot extrapolate with any accuracy....because extrapolation is hocus pocus into the unknown, by definition.
Weather and economics are extrapolated.
Nuf sed.
I wrote “most them were sterile” - as far as my understanding, this was the case. If you have (as most likely) more information, I’d be glad for links
thanks for the correction!
To my understanding, East Asians have the largest amount of Neanderthal DNA, followed by Europeans, then South Asians etc.
New york, New york, it’s a wonderful town, the Bronx is up and he Battery down!
Simply stated, regarding sterile crosses, there is no such evidence.
“...revealing inbreeding and 50,000 years of genetic isolation...”.........So, they were Democrats?..................
Satire? I thought that was an accurate prediction of the future of our world.
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