I'm going to guess that a young Neanderthal women would be no worse looking than what many men take home from the bar after it closes.
Posted on 05/25/2014 2:05:03 PM PDT by ckilmer
A new study concludes that humans mated with Neanderthals 50,000 to 80,000 years ago, leaving traces of the Neanderthal genome in some modern humans.
This picture shows the reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany, on March 20, 2009. A new study is offering insights into how early humans and Neanderthals were similar and different.
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Those brow ridges and the sloping forehead are sure giveaways, as is the hirsute body.
Re: “Neanderthal-derived genes failed to show up in the African genomes.”
Uh, oh.
Does this mean I have to plead guilty to “White Privilege?”
I know that lady. She was one of our neighbors while I was growing up.
Some folks are WAY more than “4%” Neanderthal.
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)...I sure hope they don’t also find we’re part insectoid/alien and the two genetic codes (Neanderthal/human vs insectoid/alien) don’t end up fighting for planet dominance.
Seriously, that picture needs the caption “This guy can punch your lights out”.
But I am confused by this article.
Nevertheless, I still possess the 100% white woman card which my gay brother bestowed upon me, back in the day when humor was still possible.
I intend to play it as needed.
WWLD? (What would Laz Do)?
Nuthin new here. Peoples been sayin this about me for years. And usually the number was a lot higher than 4%!
“Looks like Eleanor Clift.”
On a bad hair day.
I'm going to guess that a young Neanderthal women would be no worse looking than what many men take home from the bar after it closes.
LOL!
would Laz hit it?
/johnny
Do these 4% suffer from diabetes?
/johnny
Nope, still looks like John Travolta
Ping.
Even 50,000 years ago there would be less than 1% DNA trace. This author is just ignorant. My Great Great Grandmother only gives me 12.5% of her genes so my 4th great grandparents would give me about 3%. That is a long way form 50-80 thousand years ago.
I thought I read that first humans were in Africa so this doesn’t follow....
Recent comparisons of chimp and human DNA have backed off due to better sequencing to at most 98.5% and at the least 96%, plus, you have the difference of 23 chromosome pairs in humans and 24 in chimps. Neanderthal is a lot closer to us at 99.7 to 99.8 %.
“Some humans are 4 percent Neanderthal”
I’m sure that fluctuates a little. I know for a fact that
some are 25 maybe 35%. Take congress for example......
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