Posted on 12/08/2020 6:41:54 AM PST by blam
Dr Hugo Zeberg, assistant professor in the department of neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, talks to Jason Goodyer about his research into Neanderthal genes and the impact they could have on COVID-19 patients.
How much of the human genome has been inherited from Neanderthals?
If you have roots from outside of Africa, then roughly 2 per cent of your DNA is Neanderthal. But if we put all these pieces together, we find more than half of the Neanderthal genome in modern humans. But it will differ between people: some carry some pieces, some carry other pieces.
How do we know that modern humans inherited Neanderthal DNA?
During the last two decades people have been studying this, and a draft Neanderthal genome was published 10 years ago. Svante Pääbo and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, with whom I collaborate, managed to extract the whole DNA code from Neanderthal bones that we can compare to people living today.
We have three really good Neanderthal genomes: one from a Neanderthal found in Croatia, and two found in Siberia.
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(Excerpt) Read more at sciencefocus.com ...
In any case, there are plenty of "Homo-Erectus" among us today! (as in LBQT)
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I'd much rather taxpayer money be spent on science that will prove useful in the future than paying some welfare mother to have her eighth kid that we'll end up supporting all his life from birth to incarceration.
Hi.
I’m doomed.
I may or may not have neanderthal genes, but everyone says that I’m a neanderthal.
The ‘rona is going to get me.
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Some people think there is something they are hiding about neanderthals, due to all the misinformation they keep putting out about them. For example, they keep making them look like cavemen, when in reality they looked more like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Cruise. The evidence also looks like they were highly intelligent, and creative, and were genocided and eaten by modern humans. The mathematics and scientific (and musical) genes we have today are Neanderthal.
I just assume Neanderthals were more K-selected and intelligent, but modern humans reproduced faster, and the neanderthals couldn’t kill them fast enough and reproduce fast enough, and ended up out reproduced, with the women taken as breeding stock.
If you begin to look into it, there is a lot of academic strangeness around things relating to the history of the human species.
This topic was posted , thanks blam, I missed the ping and the topic.
See comment #16 where blam posts some quotes referring to EAST Asians having more of this DNA.
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