[Red Badger]

[Sacajaweau]

So it’s going to come down to “African is the PURE species of man?? Puleeeeeeez.....

[married21]

Could that explain our yen for grilled meat?

[Sacajaweau]

So, is there really such a thing as a Neanderthal???

Man is soooooo vain....

[Wolfstar]

Dr. Labuda and his team almost a decade ago had identified a piece of DNA (called a haplotype) in the human X chromosome that seemed different and whose origins they questioned. When the Neanderthal genome was sequenced in 2010, they quickly compared 6000 chromosomes from all parts of the world to the Neanderthal haplotype. The Neanderthal sequence was present in peoples across all continents, except for sub-Saharan Africa, and including Australia.

So it's true what most non-Negroid peoples sense intuitively. Black Africans ARE different from us, and not just in outward appearances.

[Upstate NY Guy]

As a member of a disadvantaged subhuman species I hereby demand the US government provide me with a monthly check to offset my lower earnings potential.

[Tzimisce]

Farrakhan is right!

[The Sons of Liberty]

Genetic research confirms that non-Africans are part Neanderthal ... and probably more advanced as a result.

Take Back AMERICA!
FUBO GTFO 2012 !

[Sopater]

So which is it... Neanerthal or Neandertal?

[Sopater]

So which is it... Neanderthal or Neandertal?

[Bringbackthedraft]

Too bad the Great Ice Ship of my ancestors melted during the 1st global warming. We lost all our proof of origin. Our original COBs went down with the ship. :o(

[DManA]

I don’t like the word Neanderthal. I prefer First Persons.

[onedoug]

There´s good evidence that Neanderthals put flowers into the graves of their dead, who were also purposely buried. I wouldn´t mind being linked to those who practiced among the earliest of religious rites.

[ConservativeChris]

I have to say first, I am a white male, 47. This is the second time I read this here, so these scientists are saying non-africans are human, and africans are primates?
Why NOW with a black president is the media posting such violitile topics? Normally all you hear is the spoonfed crap, like what the Obama’s had for lunch, or Republicans are bad because.... This is similar to the post where black men are better off in prison then outside.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2748766/posts

I have to ask (again) is the media TRYING to start a race war? They have happily helped to put America into the position we are at now. Seems like all they have left to do is incite us into a civil war.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You say your French Canadian meat pie is made with real French Canadians? I distinctly tasted Anglophone!

I'll have the curried homo sapiens tongue, with mango salsa, please.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Didn’t Homo Sapiens originate in what is now modern-day Iraq?

[Adder]

Damn knuckledraggers....

[USMCPOP]

“...non-Africans are part Neanderthal...”

My wife has been saying that about me for years.

[Peter Libra]

An extremely thought provoking article and irrespective of one's take on it, deserves care in evaluation. I am a little suspicious of the usage of non-African as a term however. Perhaps I am spooked by so much political correctness that pollutes academia.

Had any anthropologist used the name Neanderthal, as an African characteristic they would have been ostracized and demonized. One is not supposed to attribute anything but a sort of Harry Belafonte, Sydney Portier Hollywood image of the black people. I should include the lovely Halle Berry.

The isolation of the Haplo Group or Haplotype only recently, enables entrepeneurs to trace one's nomadic ancestors. They get a swab from inside the cheek and then purport by a series of coloured dots trace one's long line of wandering.

Somehow Wikipedia does not tell me of the eminent anthopologist who was hooted and jeered at by college students in the 1960's. I do not want to be paranoid, but it seems to have vanished, that information. After thirty years of research, he just happened to think that the four groups of homo sapiens evolved in four different areas of the universe,

All he had to have said, was that the four groups that he had so carefully studied, all came from our old girl friend Lucy in Africa. Still, lots of interest here. We have learnt that Neanderthal looked after the aged and infirm (so it is said). One up for that species!

[Dr.Zoidberg]

I don’t think it’s safe to comment on this thread, so I shall refrain.

Mmhmm...

[SharpRightTurn]

“Every addition to the genome can be enriching.”

Or not.