Posted on 02/09/2008 6:25:24 PM PST by blam
On Retainer? Put it in writing. Oral contracts aren’t worth the paper they are written on. They’re toothless.
Researching this stuff must be full filling.
Speaking of teeth, why do dentists appear to be sad?
They are always looking down in the mouth.
Why oh why are they messing around with my Grandma Eve’s teeth?
"Comparisons with the DNA of modern humans and of apes showed the Neanderthal was about halfway between a modern human and a chimpanzee...."
Great puns. You guys should receive some sort of plaque for your efforts.
I expectorate at least an honorable mention.
Filo pita IMO. Flossing over the truth I suspect.........;o)
Just WOW. The person died a whole 12.5 miles from where he grew up! They probably covered that distance in a days hunting.
Ummmmmmmm, the data says that they were sedentary farmers!
We've sequenced about seven million bases so far. Based on analysis from the first million bases, Neandertals were like humans about 96 percent of the time [meaning: at the sites of the genome where modern humans and chimps differ, the Neandertal sequence was much more likely to resemble modern humans, while it was the same as the chimp only four percent of the time.]Neanderthal is classified in genus Homo, as are we. And, other than ourselves, Neanderthal is the next most modern and advanced species in that genus. No serious scientists classify Neanderthal anywhere near the apes.The parts we're really interested in are the four percent where Neandertals are like chimps rather than humans. We hope those genes will be those that confer higher executive function. Genes for talking, cognition, or brain development would be most exciting. We imagine that as people find new genes they suspect are unique to humans and are involved in higher-order cognition, we'll be able to compare to them the Neandertal genome and see if they are different. Source (emphasis added)
Didn't I correct you on some of these same points back in December?
Some anthropologists just can't handle the tooth...
*groan*
40,000 years from now, anthropologists will study our teeth and conclude that we were back on the Gold Standard.
Thanks for the ping!
Paabo’s study consisted of fewer than 400 base pairs (379 base pairs out of a presumed original number in excess of 16,000) but apparently those details are not of common knowledge, or at least not to the ignorant author of that Express India piece you linked. Try this one:
http://www.unl.edu/rhames/neander/neander.htm
“The single Neandertal DNA sequence is distinct from all those known for humans and chimps... they calculated that the sequence ancestral to both modern and Neandertal mitochondria began to diverge some 550,000 to 690,000 years ago...”
That one crowns the subthread! Congratulations! :’)
July 10, 1997
Patricia Kahn and Ann Gibbons
(Monkey business?)
From a viewpoint of pure logic that simply is not possible. The neanderthal has been ruled out as a human ancestor precisely because the genetic gulf is too wide and all other hominids are more remote from us than the neanderthal. No hominid MORE remote than the neanderthal could plausibly be an ancestor to modern man; you'd need a hominid LESS remote.
Not so; modern humans are descended from archaic humans, and before that from various Homo sp. and Australopithecus. Somewhere late in the erectus stage the lines split, putting modern humans and Neanderthals on different paths.
I explained this to you back on December 10, 2007 by the way. Here is a brief graphic that might help.
You ever had any sort of a course in basic logic?
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