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Svante Paabo: DNA clues to our inner Neanderthal
Daily Exchange ^ | Wednesday, August 31, 2011 | Ted Talks (?)

Posted on 09/03/2011 6:15:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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Svante Paabo: DNA clues to our inner neanderthal Svante Paabo: DNA clues to our inner neanderthal

1 posted on 09/03/2011 6:15:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
He also shows how a tiny bone from a baby finger was enough to identify a whole new humanoid species.

Which, in a nutshell, defines the inherent and complete idiocy of claiming that "hominid palaentology" is "science."

2 posted on 09/03/2011 6:17:39 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("A gentleman considers what is just; a small man considers what is expedient.")
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There's a link (not an embed) to the mp4 video, I listened to it as well as I could at work yesterday, running it three times in succession because, well, it's work, which is where I work when I work.
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]
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3 posted on 09/03/2011 6:19:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
DNA was found in the finger bone ~ and, as everyone knows, DNA is microscopic YET it controls every physical essence of our being.

So what's idiotic here?

4 posted on 09/03/2011 6:25:22 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
"Yes, many of us have Neanderthal DNA."

Stating the obvious! The Democrat Party and the entire staff of the New York Times, for example, are obviously Neanderthals. We didn't need DNA to prove it.

In fact, judging from the U.S. electorate, homosapiens DNA is probably less prevalent than Neandethal in the population.

5 posted on 09/03/2011 6:25:26 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("That is the great eternal question: Are 'Liberals' evil or stupid?" ~Ann Coulter)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

The inventor of the technique was a young Earth creationist and Biblical catastrophist, so you may be onto something there.


6 posted on 09/03/2011 6:25:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Savage Beast

Neandertal ancestry is the only thing western civilization has going for it.


7 posted on 09/03/2011 6:27:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

If “modern man” coexisted with the neanderthal, then it wasn’t evolution was it?


8 posted on 09/03/2011 6:33:16 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: SunkenCiv
Neanderthal genetic research site at UCSC referred to in the video.
9 posted on 09/03/2011 6:36:10 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Fascinating stuff. I’ve often thought I would like to turn my talents towards examining fossils and learning what ancient life was like. But since I’ve never actually encountered a paleontological/molecular biological research group dedicated to such study, and medical research has tons of opportunities and is quite lucrative, I simply have not seriously looked into making such a career change.


10 posted on 09/03/2011 6:40:42 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: G Larry
If “modern man” coexisted with the neanderthal, then it wasn’t evolution was it?

There is nothing about evolution which precludes newer species from existing side by side with older species.

11 posted on 09/03/2011 6:43:32 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Which, in a nutshell, defines the inherent and complete idiocy of claiming that “hominid palaentology” is “science.”

when you are scrambling around for minuscule amounts of DNA and the like....your science is limited considerably...

that does not make it not science...on the contrary it makes it exceptional science to be able to eek out what they got from the lack of evidence...This does not make their findings rote gospel...this makes it a great beginning towards the ultimate answers....

12 posted on 09/03/2011 6:44:33 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’m confused. He said that Neandethals were never in Africa. And yet “modern man” came out of Africa and mixed with them.

How is that possible? He’s suggesting that two species of humanoids developed completely independantly and yet could interbreed.

I don’t dispute that we probably mixed with whatever was close to us, I do dispute that Neanderthals were never in Africa. Did they not almost have to have ancestors in common or they wouldn’t have been able to breed?

Instruct me, SunkenCiv, where am I going wrong?


13 posted on 09/03/2011 6:52:27 AM PDT by FrogMom (There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
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They (and we) had common ancestors. One of the foolish errors made over and over, perhaps beginning with R. Virchow, is to claim that different looks means different origins.


14 posted on 09/03/2011 6:57:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

An interesting question would be “Who has the MOST Neanderthal genetic makeup?”. Since the percentage varies.


15 posted on 09/03/2011 6:58:17 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: SunkenCiv
The inventor of the technique was a young Earth creationist and Biblical catastrophist

That's the only thing I can see to recommend it. His error, however, is in adopting the flawed mindset of the evolutionist.

16 posted on 09/03/2011 7:00:25 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("A gentleman considers what is just; a small man considers what is expedient.")
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To: DaxtonBrown
An interesting question would be “Who has the MOST Neanderthal genetic makeup?”

Mike Tyson.

17 posted on 09/03/2011 7:01:53 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("A gentleman considers what is just; a small man considers what is expedient.")
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus; DaxtonBrown
An interesting question would be “Who has the MOST Neanderthal genetic makeup?”

Mike Tyson.


From strictly a genetic point of view: more likely Carrot Top.
18 posted on 09/03/2011 7:03:52 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: G Larry

Thanks, but that’s a pretty stupid thing to say, and it was the first couple of thousand times someone said it on FR.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers/topic/arguments-we-dont-use

Arguments that should never be used
...

7. If we evolved from apes, apes shouldn’t exist today. (In an evolutionary worldview, mankind did not evolve from apes but from an apelike ancestor, from which both humans and apes of today supposedly evolved.)


19 posted on 09/03/2011 7:04:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
"Neandertal ancestry is the only thing western civilization has going for it."

Neandertal ancestry is the best thing western civilization has going for it.

20 posted on 09/03/2011 7:04:52 AM PDT by blam
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