Posted on 03/26/2018 3:35:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
People today of Native American, European, Asian, and North African heritage have Neanderthal DNA in their genomes, with percentages estimated between 1-4 percent. As a result, the majority of people alive today are related to these humans that, as a distinct population, are thought to have gone extinct 39,000-41,000 years ago.
An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has just overcome the problem, allowing for whole genome sequencing of five Neanderthals who lived 39,000-47,000 years ago. The findings, reported in the journal Nature, provide important insights into Neanderthal history before and after they encountered anatomically modern humans.
She and her colleagues took small bone and tooth samples from the remains and ground them into a fine powder. The powder was then treated with a mild, hypochlorite solution that preferentially removed the contaminating DNA.
The remaining genetic material was then sequenced and compared with the other Neanderthal genomes as well as related data for Denisovans and two anatomically modern humans whose lifespans and locations overlapped with those of the studied Neanderthals.
Since there is currently no genetic data available for Homo floresiensis, aka the "hobbit" human from the Indonesian island of Flores, it is not possible to determine how this group was related to Neanderthals and Denisovans.
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Neandertal brains were significantly larger than ours — however, they also had more rugged bodies, and a larger nervous system is needed just to generate the juice to make everything move. Whether the genes get passed down would be reliant on random chance. :^o
That’s the Replacement Master Race narrative, it comes directly from the UK. Ignore it, it’s based entirely on their out-of-Africa Darwin-said-it-I-believe-it biases.
I’ll make a wild guess that, besides the Denisovans (they showed up in my DNA as well, I was surprised to say the least) and the “Hobbits”, there will probably be further discoveries, that’s just a consequence of going out and looking for them. It’ll be great when, in what will probably be a very few years, the Erectus genomes start to emerge from their remains. Human variety emerged from isolation, which concentrated randomly inherited chromosomes, and give or take mutaions.
The Chinese don't like those scrutinized, but given the cultural remains (fabrics including tartans) along with their physical characteristics, they are at the very least, cousins of modern Europeans. Indo-Europeans came from Central Asia.
Not that I know of. One visitor noticed a finger- or thumbprint on a pot found with some of the remains. The Chinese translator asked the visitor, “is it possible to determine ethnicity from a fingerprint?” (it’s not) The visitor answered that they didn’t know. A few minutes later the pot was nowhere to be found.
I’m not a gamer except for pinball!
Whoops, thank goodness blam is here. See his link in message 35!
It would still be a very fun study.
I’m a gamer, but it’s getting so expensive to keep computing power capable of new releases. VR’s going to make it worse.
My Real Brother has gone all his life believing he was at least half-Portuguese, and when his DNA came back, he was full-on Irish with a smattering of other nationalities. It saved me the expense of having one done!
However, I would get it out and look at it except that I’m packing to move out of state and the DNA is packed with other papers. Somewhere... :o|
I wonder if you sent in the same two samples with one under the name of either “DeShawn or DeAndre” and the other with either “Bob or Frank” if you would receive the same results from the mail order DNA service.
Well, I suppose that would depend on whether DeShawn or DeAndre and Bob or Frank were female. ;o]
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