Neanderthals live on in DNA of humans

The Guardian ^ | 6 May 2010 | Ian Sample

[epluribus_2]

nephilim?

[20yearvet]

So they mated. just proves they had beer, beer can do many things, I seen more than one Cave man think he hit it big after a little beer.

[LadyBuck]

Wow - Matt Damon has really let himself go...

[Verginius Rufus]

I'm waiting for one of the tabloids to pick up on this story, with the headline:

NEANDERTHAL
CHICKS WERE EASY

[married21]

“There is a little Neanderthal in nearly all of us

And he likes barbecue...”

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LOL. I bet many of us think our dear hubbies are part Neanderthal. Not that there’s anything wrong with that...

[a fool in paradise]

So they mated. just proves they had beer, beer can do many things, I seen more than one Cave man think he hit it big after a little beer.

Fermentation is one of the first technologies man has "relearned" in civilization many times.

[SMARTY]

Bet they all knew Tiger Woods

[SMARTY]

“Better looking than what you see in the bar around closing time.”

Do you mean before or after...??

[crazydad]

Ok where is the Picture of John Kerry???

[colorado tanker]

I did not have sex with that Neanderthal!

[texas_mrs]

[haroldeveryman]

“Wait a minute...I thought via evolution we were descendants from neanderthals...”

There are different theories. The “consensus” is that the neanderthals are our cousins, not our ancestors. The ancestors of the neanderthals left Africa much earlier than modern humans. But some of the “modern male” losers among those who left Africa 60,000 years ago probably had to jump anything that walked.

Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans#Exodus_from_Africa
“According to both genetic and fossil evidence, archaic Homo sapiens evolved to anatomically modern humans solely in Africa, between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, with members of one branch leaving Africa by 60,000 years ago and over time replacing earlier human populations such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus.”

[ADemocratNoMore]

bttt

[VRWCmember]

Thanks for noticing, but it's a little late to help with my little existential meltdown.

[SargeK]

Lazamataz would approve...

[count-your-change]

“Anthropologists have long speculated that early humans may have mated with Neanderthals, but the latest study provides the strongest evidence so far, suggesting that such encounters took place around 60,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East.”

So that’s why it’s called “the Fertile Crescent”..

[ZULU]

HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

[ZULU]

That’s a dangerous line!!!

[count-your-change]

One has to chew on the idea a bit...sort of a languorous dine as it were.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	thanks Fractal Trader. The Neandertal Enigma by James Shreeve in local libraries Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127] Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. Neanderthals may have interbred with humans To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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