Great… the New York Times reports:
The biologists, led by Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have been slowly reconstructing the genome of Neanderthals, the stocky hunters that dominated Europe until 30,000 years ago, by extracting the fragments of DNA that still exist in their fossil bones. Just last year, when the biologists first announced that they had decoded the Neanderthal genome, they reported no significant evidence of interbreeding.
Scientists say they have recovered 60 percent of the genome so far and hope to complete it. By comparing that genome with those of various present day humans, the team concluded that about 1 percent to 4 percent of the genome of non-Africans today is derived from Neanderthals. But the Neanderthal DNA does not seem to have played a great role in human evolution, they said.
#13, “Many tribes of Homos call themselves “human” or “people” ” – why you hatin’ on the homos?
#14, “Female choose, pick and discard suitable or unsuitable males for reproduction purposes. We’re just pawns playing a role in the reproductive Play. Even when we thinkk we’re in control.” I am a female, so I’m getting a kick out of this.
#20, “Or that their offspring were mules.” – I think if the offspring were mules, we wouldn’t find the genes in today’s population.
It’s great to have some intellectual discourse on a Monday morning. I don’t feel like getting into my work day yet.
It would be entirely natural for H. Sapiens to mate with H. Neanderthalensis We are not so separated physically that we would have been repulsed by the other.
There is about the same degree of difference between a Northern European and an African American. It has recently been established that Polar Bears and Grizzly Bears do occasionally mate and have offspring.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly%E2%80%93polar_bear_hybrid
Blame it on the women who don’t find Robert Pattison sexy.
Nothing to say except,
In your face Bobbo and Marc! hahahah
Oh, Bobbo’s showing off his arguments here. Honestly, you’re going to have discussions on this after our previous discussion where you 100% disagreed? LMAO, what a fcktard. Oh, you can come and “beat” me up anytime at my home….I welcome it
The smart trying to be stupid as I said.
“These humans, in any case, were not fully modern and they did not expand from Africa, an episode that occurred some 30,000 years later.
The Leipzig group’s interbreeding theory would undercut the present belief that all human populations today draw from the same gene pool that existed a mere 50,000 years ago. “What we falsify here is the strong out-of-Africa hypothesis that everyone comes from the same population,” Dr. Paabo said. “
T-1–other than your animus for me, nothing else you say makes sense. The “fact” we all share a common ancient mother does not preclude the two groups of Homo’s interbred. Reading your posts, its pretty clear we did.
Lynn–who hates homo’s? We are all homo’s==a few of us twice.
#25
Ah, no. Clear and simple.
My detest for you lies in your arrogance, lets be clear about that. A smart person like you doing idiotic antics like your name, other people’s name, and so forth is first and foremost disrespectful when trying to have a decent discussion on issues. There is absolutely no reason for me to treat you otherwise.
Back to the topic, don’t be stupid, we’ve discuss this before. Wiki, 2nd paragraph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
“Mitochondrial Eve is generally estimated to have lived around 200,000 years ago,[2] most likely in East Africa,[3] when Homo sapiens sapiens were developing as a species separate from other human species.”
The word NOT from Africa and IN East Africa are very distinct. But in all cases, the more we find bones the better the picture WILL become, hence nothing is set in stone. What is considered “Human” is another topic as it appears you disagree on it as well.
From last Friday, enjoy
from my bookmark,
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/03/24/the-x-womans-fingerbone/
A good read as well,
Here’s an idea- maybe we are erecting false mental barriers between us (homo sapiens) and Neanderthals. We think we are distinct and different from them. But- what if they contributed a subtle but important part of our genes (and physical/mental characteristics?) Thus a theoretical homo sapiens completely free of Neanderthal genes would be fey, less aggressive, fragile, and unable to survive in a modern world. Roll that around in your head for awhile.
Wow… so “Clan of the Cave Bear” *was* a documentary!