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HUMANS, NEANDERTHALS DID NOT HAVE BABIES
Discovery News ^ | Aug 16, 2012 | Anon

Posted on 08/17/2012 9:37:26 AM PDT by Pharmboy

Recent research strikes a blow to the theory that humans and Neanderthals interbred.

THE GIST Studies over the last two years suggest that Neanderthals vanished more than 30,000 years ago. This would mean that early humans and Neanderthals could not have interbred. enlarge

Over the last two years, several studies have suggested that Homo sapiens got it on with Neanderthals, an hominid who lived in parts of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East for up to 300,000 years but vanished more than 30,000 years ago.

The evidence for this comes from fossil DNA, which shows that on average Eurasians and Asians share between one and four per cent of their DNA with Neanderthals, but Africans almost none.

But a new study by scientists at Britain's University of Cambridge says the shared DNA came from a shared ancestor, not from "hybridization" or reproduction between the two hominid species.

Common ancestor It begins with a common ancestors of Neanderthals and H. sapiens who lived around half a million years ago in parts of Africa and Europe.

Around 300,000 to 350,000 years ago, the European population and the African population of this hominid became separated.

Living in genetic isolation, the European range evolved bit by bit into Neanderthals, while the African range eventually became H. sapiens, which expanded in waves out of Africa from around 60,000 to 70,000 years ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: allcaps; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; humanevolution; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; ntsa; ssdd; unreconstructed; victoriannonsense
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To: Pharmboy

How do we know that these two species were genetically compatible? I tend to think they were due to traits in Europeans like red hair...unless that’s been debunked already.


61 posted on 08/17/2012 11:15:24 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: PapaNew
No valid scientifically tested artifact has been validated to show “modern man” existed before 6000 years.

From "Darwin's Ghost" by Steve Jones, page 322.

The first members of our own species, Homo sapiens, arose about a hundred and fifty thousand years ago as large, thick-skulled, but recognizable human apes. By the time the miseries of the ice ages were over we were, more or less, ourselves, with smaller brains in a thin skull on a slim and elegant body. Why we shrank is not certain. Perhaps, as in the dwarf mammoths on islands, shortage of food did the job, or perhaps a shift to a kinder society cut down the need for a sturdy frame."

62 posted on 08/17/2012 11:20:55 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: BlatherNaut
So why are there chimps still swinging from vines

Because the chimps were smarter. They get to hang out in trees and let humans feed them and say, ahhh what a cute little monkey. The dumb humans have to go to work and pay taxes.

63 posted on 08/17/2012 11:25:56 AM PDT by bgill
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To: PapaNew
Hmmm. Ever wonder how they communicated? Don't you find it puzzling that there is no recorded history or writings found older than 5000 years ago?

Some of the paintings in the Cave of Altamira are estimated by thorium-230 dating to be between 25,000 and 35,000 years old. There are around 350 caves in France and Spain with artwork created by Paleolithic man. Secluded cave walls protected from the elements are one of the few mediums around likely to preserve writing or drawing over vast periods of time.

Great song, BTW, "The Caves of Altamira" by Steely Dan.

"Before the Fall
When they wrote it on the wall
When there wasn't even any Hollywood..."
64 posted on 08/17/2012 11:29:27 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Pharmboy

Humans, usually female, mate with Neanderthals all the time nowadays.


65 posted on 08/17/2012 11:37:18 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Boogieman

In fact, Herto Man, a fully modern Homo Sapiens dated to 160 k years old and found in the Afar region of East Africa leads many to speculate that modern human go back 200k years. Reading the fossil record is quite like reading book with most of the pages missing. There are a lot of reasonable hypothesis, hanging around out there, each with its vocal supporters. As long as the support for one set does not intimidate research into other well founded ideas, this back and forth is healthy.


66 posted on 08/17/2012 11:37:49 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
I am afraid I must object.

You use the word "Great" along with "Steely Dan" in the same assertion.

Good day sir.
67 posted on 08/17/2012 11:37:57 AM PDT by Graing ("The power of wind, fire... all that kind of thing")
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To: The_Media_never_lie

.... pretty women walking with gorillas down my street....


68 posted on 08/17/2012 11:38:43 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: centurion316

“Neanderthals did not have babies, how did they reproduce”

Lets call them “Pups”, or “cubs” then. Just not babies.


69 posted on 08/17/2012 11:56:18 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ("We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately." - Franklin)
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To: Pharmboy
We did not split FROM a chimp line, but from a common ancestor of our line and chimps.

Understood. But what is the evolutionary explanation for the vast cognitive disparity between the human species and every other species on earth?

70 posted on 08/17/2012 12:04:26 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: bgill
Because the chimps were smarter. They get to hang out in trees and let humans feed them and say, ahhh what a cute little monkey. The dumb humans have to go to work and pay taxes.

You mean chimps are democrats? They can't be smarter if that's the case. :-)

71 posted on 08/17/2012 12:09:46 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: dfwgator

What popped into my head was, “He must be rich.”


72 posted on 08/17/2012 12:19:31 PM PDT by FrogMom (There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: BlatherNaut

Aha! A great question...some say divine creation, and others don’t really know, but they have their hypotheses. A top question in anthropology...


73 posted on 08/17/2012 12:23:04 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Pharmboy

“...Gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman.....gotta find a woman....”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgktcySf_aw


74 posted on 08/17/2012 12:27:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Graing
You use the word "Great" along with "Steely Dan" in the same assertion.

Let me amend that...to "awesome" =). I was a kid when my mom used to wear out their LPs as they came out in the '70s, but I still love those albums. Some of the best music the '70s created, IMHO.
75 posted on 08/17/2012 12:28:17 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: null and void
Since there are Modern Americans, why are there still Europeans?

Well, if Europeans were still wandering around in chainmail (or swinging on vines like chimps, for that matter) that would pose some different evolutionary questions. :-)

76 posted on 08/17/2012 12:29:21 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: Pharmboy

And Divine Creation doesn’t preclude the possibility of evolution.


77 posted on 08/17/2012 12:40:24 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: BlatherNaut

Chimpanzees are well adapted to their environment. Their environment has changed little so they have changed little.

Some of our common ancestors stayed in the trees, others were driven out by some mechanism, perhaps they were crowded out into the grasslands, perhaps their local forests died out due to drought or some infestation.

The ones somewhat better adapted to looking over the grass to see predators and opportunities had more kids. The ones who happened to be better at holding and using tools had more kids. The smarter ones had more kids.

It doesn’t take all that many generations for a change in selection processes to change a population.


78 posted on 08/17/2012 12:46:54 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1306 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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To: OldNavyVet
“Although Neanderthals, at first sight so similar to modern humans, were once placed on the last rung before mankind, fossil DNA hints that they may not even be on the same ladder. Their mitrochondrial genes are quite distinct from our own. They were not the ancestors of human genes but followed a separate path. For mitrochondria at least, Neanderthals and ourselves split half a million years ago.”

Mitochondrial DNA is only passed on by mothers.

Nothing saying a neanderthal couldn't be someone's babydaddy...

79 posted on 08/17/2012 12:52:04 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1306 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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To: Pharmboy

I gotta idea.

Let’s just ask God about it when we see His face.


80 posted on 08/17/2012 1:02:22 PM PDT by chesley (God's chosen instrument - the trumpet)
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