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Here's What Happened When Neanderthals And Ancient Humans Hooked Up 80,000 Years Ago
BI ^ | 1-29-2014 | Dina Spector

Posted on 01/29/2014 3:14:52 PM PST by blam

Here's What Happened When Neanderthals And Ancient Humans Hooked Up 80,000 Years Ago

Dina Spector
Jan. 29, 2014, 1:49 PM

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Neanderthal REUTERS/Nikola Solic

Hyperrealistic face of a neanderthal male is displayed in a cave in the new Neanderthal Museum in the northern Croatian town of Krapina February 25, 2010

By comparing the Neanderthal genome to modern human DNA, the authors of two new studies, both published on Wednesday, show how DNA that humans have inherited from breeding with Neanderthals has shaped us.

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and their sister lineage, Denisovans, descended from a common ancestor. The ancestors of modern humans broke off from this single branch more than 500,000 years ago. The Neanderthals split from the Denisovans some time later. The Neanderthals formed their own lineage that lived in Europe and Asia from around 200,000 years ago to 30,000 years ago. There's also a period when scientists believe that Neanderthals and ancient humans overlapped and interbred.

Researchers from Harvard Medical School, who published their findings in Nature, previously showed that the ancestors of modern humans interbred with Neanderthals between 80,000 years ago and 40,000 years ago, before Neanderthals went extinct.

Any given person of European or Asian descent owes at least 1% of their DNA to the Neanderthal genome.

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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: asians; dna; europeans; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
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To: blam
We used to call them wino's. They were useful as a species to help us humans buy alcohol from non middle eastern convenience store types in the 60’s.
21 posted on 01/29/2014 3:48:59 PM PST by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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To: Sirius Lee

Jesus Quintana as the Secretary of Education.


22 posted on 01/29/2014 3:52:26 PM PST by EEGator
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To: blam

Neanderthals....waiting for the obligatory Helen Thomas picture....You folks KNOW it’s coming...


23 posted on 01/29/2014 4:01:04 PM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: EEGator

Jesus Quintana as the Secretary of Education.


“Eight-year olds, Dude.”


24 posted on 01/29/2014 4:02:55 PM PST by AFret. ("Charlie don't surf ! ")
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To: entropy12
.. because I have run across so many people who act and look like neanderthals

easy there, sapien !

25 posted on 01/29/2014 4:03:04 PM PST by tomkat ( -1 -2 -3 = #4)
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To: blam

Is that Laz?


26 posted on 01/29/2014 4:10:26 PM PST by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: Average Al

Given that Neadertals were likely more intelligent that homo sapiens, that’s not a bad thing.


27 posted on 01/29/2014 4:24:08 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness

So you met the President of France?


28 posted on 01/29/2014 4:30:29 PM PST by Defiant (Obama is The Bard of Canard.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian
"Given that Neaderthals were likely more intelligent that homo sapiens, that’s not a bad thing."

I have ideas along that line too.

29 posted on 01/29/2014 4:36:20 PM PST by blam
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To: a fool in paradise

I could see George Thorogood covering this song.


30 posted on 01/29/2014 4:37:34 PM PST by gusty
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To: humblegunner; TheMom; TheOldLady; thackney

Gunner, I’ve never seen you without your hat!


31 posted on 01/29/2014 4:45:11 PM PST by Eaker (Sweat dries, blood clots and bones heal so suck it up buttercup.)
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To: blam

Well, based on the picture the women were pretty ugly. I wonder what the men looked like?


32 posted on 01/29/2014 4:45:59 PM PST by BigBobber
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To: trisham

I’m a Neanderthal as well. I have that bony ridge in my jaw that makes it impossible to numb my teeth.

Dentists have to numb the root of the tooth itself and not the nerve in my throat.


33 posted on 01/29/2014 4:55:42 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Le Chien Rouge

Helen Thomas is extinct.


34 posted on 01/29/2014 4:57:36 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Eaker; humblegunner; TheMom; thackney

Leave Gunner’s hat alone.


35 posted on 01/29/2014 5:01:39 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: blam

A fat-faced JohnKerry


36 posted on 01/29/2014 5:04:32 PM PST by cookcounty (IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
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To: TheOldLady
My ancestors are from Germany and Ireland. I have reddish highlights in my hair, blue-grey eyes and pale skin.

"A 2007 genetic study suggested some Neanderthals may have had red hair and light skin colour."

Source: Wikipedia

:)

37 posted on 01/29/2014 5:05:12 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: blam

If Moochelle skips a few shaves you’ll see a strong resemblance.


38 posted on 01/29/2014 5:10:58 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: VerySadAmerican

Not at all.


39 posted on 01/29/2014 5:12:48 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

I’m Italian and French. I have graying black hair and brown eyes.

There is probably plenty of Neanderthal DNA all over the world.


40 posted on 01/29/2014 5:15:10 PM PST by TheOldLady
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