New Finds Reveal Fully-Human Neandertal

Institute for Creation Research ^ | 8-25-2014 | Brian Thomas

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New Finds Reveal Fully-Human Neandertal

by Brian Thomas, M.S. *

The case for Neandertals as more primitive members of an evolutionary continuum that spans from apes to modern man continues to weaken. Genetic and archaeological finds are completely reshaping modern concepts of Neandertal men and women.

Researchers interested in unraveling humanity's past recently sequenced a female Neandertal's ancient DNA and published their results in Nature.1 The research included sequences that closely matched: Neandertal, Denisovan, modern man, plus an unidentified variation of man. The study authors suspected that these different groups interbred. Just as prior studies showed, this one confirmed that similarities between Neandertal and other human DNA sequences place "Miss Neandertal" inside human kind.2

In the context of biblical history, ancient families founded tribes and nations soon after their dispersal from the Tower of Babel. It appears these ancient people showed much wider variation in genetic and physical differences than the more limited range found across today's human populations.3 If accurate, then we would fully expect Neandertal peoples to have been able to interbreed with other post-Babel peoples.

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Read all about it in Jean Auel's "Clan of Cave Bear" books.

I think she wrote those books based on a hobby of researching the origins of Eurpopean man. She was convincing, I thought, that CroMagnon and Neandrathal lived in Europe simultaneously and intermingled.