Biden Explained.
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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Biden Explained.
Biden Explained.
Making, of course, the huge assumption that you only have one neanderthal ancestor, and assuming that none of your ancestors married cousins.
I agree with you. I consider Neanderthals to have been fully human, albeit not modern humans.Put one in modern dress and he/she would not appear any weirder than what one can see at Walmart. That's not to denigrate Walmart. Walmart just gets a broad crosss-section of humanity.
I saw a woman who looked like that. She was from Nebraska.
Come to think of it, there are quite a few in CO who look like that, too.
Isn’t the Russian Boxer an elected member of the Duma and a Bigfoot hunter?
I’m seeing Olsen twins in that face.
He probably wants a female Bigfoot for uh, research purposes.
Hey; don’t you be dissin my relatives.
I would be on the higher end of that percentage scale according to my wife.
I just keep telling her that Neanderthal/Redneck don’t mean stupid.
(or in the case of congress braindead/crooked).
Exactly. I doubt things were different in this regard 50,000 years ago.
You're assuming that the person got 'one shot' of Neanderthal genes 50,000 years ago and that was it. They may have been getting a mixed % of Neanderthal genes from each generation...not just once.
lol
Any particular one, yes....but summed over the entire tree?
Suppose the general population was 99% Homo sapiens sapiens, and 1% Homo sapiens neanderthalis. Now with complete intermingling, 5 generations later you have 32% of the population having that 4% (actually 3.125%) neanderthalis, with the remaining 68% being pureblood sapiens.
Now either the intermingling stopped (leaving the split at 68-32), or continued, making roughly everyone at 1% neanderthalis.
Of course other possibilities exist. Some of the neanderthalis may have died out without reproducing, etc.
But after 50,000 to 80,000 years there would be no trace neanderthal in the general population.
The Neandertal Enigma"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]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
Note: this topic was posted 5/25/2014. Thanks ckilmer.
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