Posted on 07/18/2011 11:42:37 PM PDT by Beowulf9
Is there a little Fred Flintstone in you? According to a new genetic analysis, some of the human X chromosome originates from Neanderthals -- but it's found exclusively in people outside Africa. The ancestors of Neanderthals left Africa about 400,000 to 800,000 years ago. They evolved over the millennia mostly in what are now France, Spain, Germany and Russia, and went extinct (or were simply absorbed into the modern human population) about 30,000 years ago. The ancestors of early modern humans left Africa about 80,000 to 50,000 years ago, according to DiscoveryNews.com. Despite that wide spread in time, genetic material from Neanderthals still can be found in a piece of DNA (called a haplotype) in the human X chromosome -- meaning the two clearly mated. "This confirms recent findings suggesting that the two populations interbred," says Dr. Labuda. His team places the timing of such intimate contacts and family ties early on, probably at the crossroads of the Middle East. Neanderthals possessed the gene for language and had sophisticated music, art and tool craftsmanship skills, so they must have not been all that unattractive to modern humans at the time, DiscoveryNews.com noted. "There is little doubt that this haplotype is present because of mating with our ancestors and Neanderthals," Nick Patterson of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University told DiscoveryNews.com. He added, "This is a very nice result, and further analysis may help determine more details."
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The defining characteristic determining whether two groups are the same species is whether they can interbreed and produce viable offspring. The research currently under discussion indicates that the humans who encroached on Neanderthal territory (Europeans and Asians) have genes in common with Neanderthals, while sub-Saharan Africans do not. If we were able to interbreed, then Neanderthal is another race of Men, and are not apes (with whom we CANNOT interbreed).
Redhead here, proudly claiming my Neanderthal genes.
That's right. And all available REAL evidence i.e. fossil evidence, indicates that humans and neanderthals couldn't.
James Shreeve's 1996 paper from Dioscover:
http://discovermagazine.com/1995/sep/theneanderthalpe558
discusses the lack of real evidence and the later dna evidence explained the mystery. Again neanderthal dna is about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee.
Part of the problem is that the evolutionites, stupid though they may be, have figured out that they have a problem i.e. that all other hominids were further removed from us THAN the neanderthal and that if the neanderthal has been ruled out as a human ancestor (it has), then there is basically nothing on this planet that we could be descended from via any process resembling evolution. The revisionism we are seeing now amounts to wishful thinking and a late understanding of their problem.
Not at all. My pleasure!
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You are profoundly misinformed.
And the reason I should take your word for that is??
I’m a Golgafrinchan, descendant of one of the survivors of the “B” Ark.
Would you like your fire fitted nasally?
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