"...the researchers sought to reveal whether the Neandertal mtDNA pool exhibited long-term stability or drastic modification around the time of cohabitation with modern humans....;-)
Posted on 06/05/2006 1:11:24 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
Most likely because modern women didn't care much for that "knock 'em over the head & drag 'em back to the cave" sort of dating scene. ;-)
But modern guys invented the "paper bag" to facilitate interbreeding attempts between them and Neandertal women. ;-)
A #3 postal canvas sack works well too.
This is what we call a SAMPLE. It's brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and cousins would have had the same mitchondrial DNA which WOULD have been passed on.
I thought, maybe incorrectly, that Mito-DNA was passable only through the maternal line............
The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree
The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite TV
And while the Muslims went on another killing spree
The rest picked their four greatest priests
And they began to speak
They said "Lord the plague is on the world
Lord no man is free
The temples that we built to you
Have tumbled into the sea
Lord, if you won't take care of us
Won't you at least smite the Muzzies, please?"
"...the researchers sought to reveal whether the Neandertal mtDNA pool exhibited long-term stability or drastic modification around the time of cohabitation with modern humans....;-)
mtDNA is passed from a mother to both sons and daughters. But only daughters pass theirs on to the next generation.
With sons, their descendants will have the mtDNA of their mates.
More on Neanderthal genetics.
You still holding to your Cor Magnon tooth story?
Correct. So this dead child would have the same mitochondrial DNA as his/her sisters, as well as his mother's sisters' girls. All of them COULD have gone ahead and passed on their mtDNA.
And beer goggles hadn't yet been invented!
*****But modern guys invented the "paper bag" to facilitate interbreeding attempts between them and Neandertal women. ;-)*****
when did alcohol first hit the scene? =P
I'm confused. How does the MtDNA from one specimen show any level of diversity, even when compared with later samples?
(This is a legit question for you geneticists. I'm a geologist myself...)
Just keep in mind that the average Neanderthal temptress was burlier and stronger and quite possibly furrier than the average Cro-Magnon dude, so that whole "knock 'em over the head & drag 'em back to the cave" scene might've been a deal-breaker for the modern guys, too. ;^)
Randy has penned a number of great songs, hasn't he?
"Louisiana... they're trying to wash us away..."
and how could I forget "They don't know what love is...."?
Apparently not soon enough for the Neandertal "babes".
eh, I forgot to add the "Florence Nightingale Effect" explaining the mating of a few HS women with the surviving N. males they were helping...but I think you got the general (useless) drift...
Still a supposition. They might (although the evidence is against it) have interbred their way out of unique status as a species.
"Neandertals ... becoming extinct shortly after the arrival of modern humans on the continent around 30,000 years ago."
Evidence of the first muslims arriving in Europe?
They were antisocial and didn't band together well.
Also, this prevented the passing along of skills leading
to advancement, when one died all his skills died with him.
Homo Sapiens were more social and had strength of numbers
and by banding together and sharing skills, preserved them.
Don't come crying for a source either, I was there and I watched it happen. ;-)
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