Scientists Can't Agree If Neanderthals And Early Modern Humans Mated, Still Won't Stop FB/FB From Making Stuff Up
Apparently, the mating habits of Neanderthals and early modern humans have become a hot topic amongst the scientific community the past few years. A new article on USAToday.com about this subject shows that the debate about whether the two hybridized is alive and well:
That seems like pretty strong evidence for interbreeding between Neanderthals and early modern humans, folks who are thought to have migrated out of Africa around 65,000 years ago. Neanderthals vanish from the fossil record about 30,000 years ago in Europe.
But not so fast, says a Proceedings of the National Academies of Science report led by Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge, out Monday. The study suggests that a common ancestor of both humans and Neanderthals dating to around 350,000 years ago and living in both Europe and Africa might explain the genes shared with the vanished sister species, rather than interbreeding.
Unfortunately, there have been no press releases about a time machine being created, so there is no conclusive way to find out what happened in the dark caves of Europe and Asia thousands of years ago.
[via usatoday.com]
There is a way to find out if they mated.
ReplyDeleteJust do a DNA test on Leon W.
that guy really owns you huh?
DeleteOr Vin Diesel
ReplyDeleteShawn, I've. gotta say this is the best title to an article yet, lol!
ReplyDeletecan you fit a Tardis in a Tardis? mmmh!!
ReplyDeleteWho let a Brit in here?
DeleteTime travel would be amazing!
ReplyDeletePaul
yeah going back to all those locations and watching hoaxes being made.
DeleteI'd rather though, go back and get the lotto numbers.
R.I.P. Horshack.
ReplyDeletewe know very little about our hominid cousins but wht we do know is that we are the only ones still alive today
ReplyDeleteThe weakness of this paper, is that it is based on computer modeling, and not hard data. They merely show it 'could' have happened that some archaic DNA in a population subset might not shared by all close relatives. This modeling-pretending-to-be-real-data should be viewed with skepticism. (This is the problem with most climate science papers, too.)
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Dude,
DeleteThe whole Neanderthal / Homo erectus crossbreeding situation has allays been based on speculation and what ifs because there's just a shortage of data. I think the most reasonable thing to do is to just admit that we don't know what happened and leave it at that.
Patience young skeptics. The DNA results are coming.
ReplyDeletelol dont make me laugh
DeleteYep, "soon" and then Melba will release her furious vengeance and bring her glorious wrath upon all who doubted about communing with a "playful" family of 5 while preaching protection but choosing not to get the easy proof she so easily could have gotten while watching them build blurry stick structures and braiding her horses hair.
DeleteOh yes, Melba is going to destroy the skeptics with a menacing fireball followed by spitting venom. Uh huh.....its coming, "soon". Just continue to be patient her young disciples .....
Oh they mated allright, you should get a gander at my neighbor lady!
ReplyDeletedo these FB/FB guys have any scientific credentials?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I'm just asking.
FB/FB is one guy, but he refers to himself as "we" lol
DeleteWell i don't care what they say, my big Neanderthal cock makes me think there may have been some interbreeding ;D
ReplyDeleteya i have a big dick too
Delete^ For a chipmunk.
DeleteWould be nice if the liberals would put the skull together correctly and we would see the truth for what it is, just the skull of a very old human. Not early/modern just human. Dont be deceived.
ReplyDeleteGo flat earth yourself.
DeleteWhat is bigfoot?
ReplyDeleteWhat do people think it is?
DeleteI watch finding Bigfoot.
DeleteFake
DeleteThey did a lot of breeding with each other but it was all back door action. Leon W. was the result of a dribble down.
ReplyDeleteHumans and apes cannot interbreed.
ReplyDeleteThen where did Bigfoot come from?
DeleteI'd say from Uranus. The same place your background on genetics came from.
DeleteI believe the assumption of mating comes from data collected from places like a valley in Israel where there are both Neaderthal and early Human fossils dating from the same time frame. Also DNA studies that identify 1 - 4 percent Neanderthal DNA in all modern humans that are not of African or Asian descent.
ReplyDeleteTwo questions:
Delete1. What valley?
2. How did they get neanderthal DNA?