Posted on 09/11/2006 8:17:32 AM PDT by ryan71
Neanderthals are often thought of as the stray branch in the human family tree, but research now suggests the modern human is likely the odd man out.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I thought Nebraska had more wheat that that, and those camels? Where did they off to?
Does this mean we're adopted ?
So were they saying Nebraskan men are pigs? :0)
"In the broader sweep of human evolution, the more unusual group is not Neanderthals, whom we tend to look at as strange, weird and unusual, but it's us, modern humans," Trinkaus said.This seems like a useful study. It is also an example of scientists continually reexamining the data to better understand our past.Modern humans, for example, are the only members of the human family who lack brow ridges, Trinkaus said.
"We are the only ones who have seriously shortened faces," he added. "We are the only ones with very reduced internal nasal cavities. We also have a number of detailed features of the limb skeleton that are unique."
In grad school my evolution professor considered Neanderthal to be late European erectus; that seems to fit in with this current thought.
And your comment that the scientist must be a democrat. I don't understand that at all. Republicans can be evolutionary scientists too.
Only when they beat Texas in a football game. :)
Only one who is a Neanderthal would think that they are more normal than we are. It sounds like a comment from a Democrat.
Hey, it was tongue-in-cheek humor...but I really don't feel it should be necessary to tell people that on this forum.
Just another theory. Probably had a grant that needed to be renewed.
"Only when they beat Texas in a football game. :)
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Which they will do in due time, again. Go, Big Red! [grin]
I posted the Nebraska man illustration for fun. In general, it is a reminder than one should not speculate too wildly, and a little humility about "scientific" claims is in order.
The posted article seems pretty sound, IMHO.
Nah.
It's that stoopid agenda again.
Next step? Gays are more "normal" than Neanderthals!
< /sarc >
These perverts are so flipping transparent!
*YAWN*
How the heck is this a standard for "Normalcy?" What are these people getting at? Neanderthals have more ape like features so they are more normal?????? This is a bit of twisted analysis to be sure.
GGG ping
ROFLMAO
Hey that have seen the folks from New Jersey (just kidding)
Sorry Brooklynites can't type---but they haven't seen the folks from New Jersey!!!!!!
LOL Hold the phones. We have a winner!
Not likely. Neanderthal was NEVER an ancestor of modern man. I know that's blasphemy to many, but look these up if you disagree:
Matthias Krings et al., "Neanderthal DNA Sequences and the Origin of Modern Humans," Cell 90 (1997)-30
Matthias Krings et al., "DNA Sequence of the Mitochondrial Hypervariable Region II from the Neanderthal Type Specimen," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 96 (1999): 5581-85
Igor V. Ovchinnikov et al., "Molecular Analysis of Neanderthal DNA from the Northern Caucasus," Nature 404 (2000): 490-93
Matthias Krings et al., "A View of Neanderthal Genetic Diversity," Nature Genetics 26 (2000): 144-46.
Ralf W. Schmitz et al., "The Neanderthal Type Site Revisited: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Skeletal Remains from the Neander Valley, Germany," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99 (2002): 13342-47.
The (mitochondrial) DNA sequences were from five specimens from widely separated sites over a period of years.
According to the DNA, Neanderthal was NOT a human ancestor.
Funny you don't hear much about this, isn't it?
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