You, yes you, are part neanderthal

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If your heritage is non-African, you are part Neanderthal, according to a new study in the July issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution. Discovery News has been reporting on human/Neanderthal interbreeding for some time now, so this latest research confirms earlier findings.

Damian Labuda of the University of Montreal’s Department of Pediatrics and the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center conducted the study with his colleagues. They determined some of the human X chromosome originates from Neanderthals, but only in people of non-African heritage.

“This confirms recent findings suggesting that the two populations interbred,” Labuda was quoted as saying in a press release. His team believes most, if not all, of the interbreeding took place in the Middle East, while modern humans were migrating out of Africa and spreading to other regions.
 
The Neanderthals were white like heck with blonde hair and blue eyes. I don’t believe they were separate human species. Do you remember this discovery?

The BBC reports today on the Hobbit-sized “human” skeletons found in Indonesia. Two new science papers in the journal Nature support the theory that they belong to a separate species, perhaps branching from Homo erectuses living in South-East Asia a million years ago. The dwarf-sized “people”—who used fire and hunted—appear to have gone extinct perhaps just 8,000 years ago.

It turned out they were pygmy people of Sulawesi.
 
Currently science doesn’t have a clue about human “evolution”. Some finds have “modern” man predating both Neanderthal and Cro Magnon. Two steps forward and one step back - how’s that explained by evolution?
 
SamH said:
Currently science doesn’t have a clue about human “evolution”. Some finds have “modern” man predating both Neanderthal and Cro Magnon. Two steps forward and one step back - how’s that explained by evolution?
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I wish someone in the science world would say, in regards to evolution, “The emperor has no clothes!”
 
THIS IS NOT NEWS:

Girls have always known guys were Neanderthals :D:D:D
 
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The Neanderthals were white like heck with blonde hair and blue eyes. I don’t believe they were separate human species.
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How do you know the skin color and hair color of Neanderthals? And some scientists do classify Neanderthals as a separate species: Homo neanderthalensis.
Do you remember this discovery?

The BBC reports today on the Hobbit-sized “human” skeletons found in Indonesia. Two new science papers in the journal Nature support the theory that they belong to a separate species, perhaps branching from Homo erectuses living in South-East Asia a million years ago. The dwarf-sized “people”—who used fire and hunted—appear to have gone extinct perhaps just 8,000 years ago.

It turned out they were pygmy people of Sulawesi.
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No, it turned out that the “Hobbits” have been given the status of Homo floresiensis, a separate species of human, more closely related to australopithecines than to Homo sapiens.
 
SamH said:
Currently science doesn’t have a clue about human “evolution”. Some finds have “modern” man predating both Neanderthal and Cro Magnon. Two steps forward and one step back - how’s that explained by evolution?
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College frat parties.
 
If Neanderthals were capable of mating with Homo Sapiens and producing fertile offspring, then Neanderthals were every bit as human as Homo Sapiens, and the physical differences were of no greater import than the physical differences between a Nigerian and a Swede today, or a collie and a German shepherd, for that matter.
 
You mean to tell me the other CAF member who told me I was a Neandertal was (partly) right?😃 (true story, though, but I deserved it.)
 
Despite the artists’ inclination to portray Neanderthals as ape-like, I have read opinions of anthropologists that if one met a Neanderthal in northern Europe, (and perhaps elsewhere) dressed in modern clothes and properly barbered, a person would not find him particularly remarkable other than the fact that he had a rather robust physiognomy. As I recall, northern Chinese have more DNA in common with Europeans than they do with southern Chinese. Indisputably the former are larger and more robust than the latter; some being very much so. It may be that if one encountered a Neanderthal in a northern Chinese setting, one might not find him remarkable there either.

We breed dogs and cattle and horses to emphasize certain physical characteristics. But they’re all dogs, and capable of producing fertile offspring. People have, over time, done the very same thing in their own groups. I recall, for example, the Alans who called themselves “the golden ones”, having a thing about blondness. They were inclined to steal blonde women from the Slavs and others in order to enhance that “golden” appearance they thought so fetching. (Himmler’s “lebensborn” program was an attempt to do the same thing.) It’s entirely possible that Neanderthals might have even chosen to emphasize that physical robustness in their matings. It might have been useful to them, or even just attractive, whereas those people we refer to as “homo sapiens” might have emphasized a more svelte physiognomy for the sake of speed, swimming and other aspects of physical dexterity, or even to serve their own notions of physical attractiveness.

I’m not an anthropologist, and claim to no expertise on the subject, but I have long thought Neanderthals were simply people, and that the sharp distinction so many like to make between them and Homo Sapiens is an artificial construct.
 
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