Dennis Neandeson poses proudly with his trophy cougar.
Posted on 04/25/2020 9:03:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
When the ancestors of modern humans left Africa 50,000 years ago they met the Neandertals. In this encounter, the Neandertal population contributed around two percent of the genome to present day non-African populations. A collaboration of scientists from Aarhus University in Denmark, deCODE Genetics in Iceland, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have conducted the most comprehensive study to date using data obtained from 27,566 Icelanders, to figure out which parts of our genomes contain Neandertal DNA and what role it plays in modern humans.
Every person of non-African decent shares around two percent of their DNA with the Neandertals. However, different people carry different pieces of Neandertal DNA so when the authors added them up they could reconstruct at least 38 percent of the Neandertal genome using 14 million Neandertal DNA fragments.
Comparing this Neandertal DNA with the Neandertal and Denisovan genomes, which were sequenced at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, the researchers found that the Neandertal population that mixed with modern Icelanders was more similar to a Neandertal found in Croatia than to Neandertals found in Russia. Unexpectedly, they also found that Icelanders carry traces of Denisovan DNA, which was previously only thought to be present in East Asians and populations from Papua New Guinea.
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Thal is an obsolete spelling of the German word Tal meaning valley. I don’t know why the puxh to change tbe spelling for the caveman.
Maybe when the sabertooth cougars went clubbing they clubbed the men and dragged them back to the cave by their hair.
Impressive list!
Interesting. And neither, obviously, do I.
Was gonna quip that them young studs will hit anything - something that hasn’t changed through the ages...but with the men doing the more dangerous work, it makes sense that there would be more “older” women of child bearing age available...one man and a lot of women can propagate a species...one woman and a lot of men will let the species die out but the woman will be in a continual state of bliss.
No wonder they died out. LOL.
Dennis Neandeson poses proudly with his trophy cougar.
Your posts? Yes, I agree, all junk.
Including the H is the way the English decided to do it, "-tal" is from the German original. I'm drawing a blank on what "Google search drop" means.
Puxh must be another old spelling? /rib /rib
The older mother/younger father doesn't refer to the mother's being older that the father, it refers to the age of the parents relative to each other, compared with the average age spread nowadays (which of course is skewed because the Earth has way too many pedo-muzzies). Not sure how that is figured out via the DNA, we'll have to send an e-card shower to Laurits Skov.
Articles in English, of course, should use English spellings. IMO.
Spellings of non-English words should not promote incorrect pronounciations, IMO.
I think the article is saying they had the equivalent of 25 year old mothers and 15 year old fathers, when humans were more like having 15 year old mothers and 25 year old fathers.
If hunters had a high mortality rate, then I would guess that a lot of older widows would have little choice but to breed with the younger boys of the tribe.
When words are taken into the English language, there is no reason to pretentiously keep a foreign pronunciation.
What are you, an NPR reporter, loving to roll your r’s? Do you go with the French pronunciation of Paris as well?
No, I'm for the correct pronounciation of this word, not the politically correct anti-German English way of saying it. But thanks for playing.
You’ve got your political correctness backwards—and ducked an answer to my questions.
I’ll put you in the pretentious NPR reporter category.
Given Neanderthals’ diet of meat and hunting pattern (up close and personal - not throwing/shooting weapons)....and given that they often hunted large powerful game, I would guess a lot of the males were killed before getting very old.
How long do you think you’d last earning a living by spearing oxen, large deer, bison, bears, etc?
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