Neanderthals interbred with non African populations

[Minimalist]

Once again.....I didn't write the theory and tend more to multi-regionalism but that was funny.

[Justtristo]

http://www.dhamurian.org.au/anthropology...thal1.html

Red hair may be the legacy of Neanderthal man. Oxford University scientists think the ginger gene, which is responsible for red hair, fair skin and freckles, could be up to 100,000 years old. They say their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man, who lived in Europe for 260,000 years before the ancestors of modern man arrived from Africa about 40,000 years ago.

Not to mention...

The Neanderthals are generally thought to have been a less intelligent species than modern man, Homo sapiens. ....they had a basic, guttural vocabulary of about 70 words, probably at the level of today's two-year-old, and they never developed a full language, art or culture.

Sounds like the average republican!

Comparing the intelligence of Neanderthals to that of an average Republican is an insult to Neanderthals.

[Anomalocaris]

The fact that neanderthals effected ritualized burials of their dead, complete with what appear to be grave goods, suggests an ability to communicate complex culturally based world views demanding far more than a two year old's vocabulary.

[Cinjin]

http://www.dhamurian.org.au/anthropology...thal1.html
Red hair may be the legacy of Neanderthal man. Oxford University scientists think the ginger gene, which is responsible for red hair, fair skin and freckles, could be up to 100,000 years old. They say their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man, who lived in Europe for 260,000 years before the ancestors of modern man arrived from Africa about 40,000 years ago.

Well, this little ginger wants to keep that gene of his alive and well. Which is made even more hilarious after watching him rant in the bottom video.






LMAO

[downbeatplumb]

But seriously... Neanderthals were ugly... why would anyone want to breed with one?

Poor lighting and alcohol.

[Anomalocaris]

But seriously... Neanderthals were ugly... why would anyone want to breed with one?

Poor lighting and alcohol.

You think all the cave homo sapien women looked like Rachel Welch?

[downbeatplumb]

You think all the cave homo sapien women looked like Rachel Welch?

No but I have known some foxy redheads.

[Anomalocaris]

You think all the cave homo sapien women looked like Rachel Welch?

No but I have known some foxy redheads.

They must be a treat once you get all the lice out of their hair.

Interestingly, human lice suggest our ancesters largely evolved in hot climate over the last 400,000 years or so, which argues against heavy genetic input or even extensive contact with local HNS in cold Europe. As it happens, humans are host to two different species of lice, the head lice and the crotch lice. Genetic studies suggest the two species of lice diverged from each other around 400,000 years ago. Lice can only live either where there is hair, or there is reasonably tight fitting clothing, preferrably made of fur. The fact that there are two species of lice on the human body, each specializing in its own hairy area suggests not only that human ancesters lost enough of their body hair 400,000 years ago to force their parasites to retreat to the two dense tufts that they had remaining, but also they did not wear any sort of reasonable close fitting clothing that would act as a bridge for the lice between the head and the crotch. This suggest our lice, and by insinuation our direct ancesters, evolved mainly in Africa, and did not have very close contacts with dwellers of cold climate such as neanderthals where one would expect any one type of lice infestation to propogate over the entire body via clothing.

Either that or Neanderthals, destined never to stoop to christianity, were simply cleaner and lice free.

[Minimalist]

and did not have very close contacts with dwellers of cold climate such as neanderthals

The range of HNS



is not strictly limited to cold climates, though. Frankly, they seem to demonstrate a wide range of adaptability and did so for 400,000 years during which the ice sheets advanced and retreated a couple of times.

[Anomalocaris]

and did not have very close contacts with dwellers of cold climate such as neanderthals

The range of HNS



is not strictly limited to cold climates, though. Frankly, they seem to demonstrate a wide range of adaptability and did so for 400,000 years during which the ice sheets advanced and retreated a couple of times.

But if we assume Neanderthal to have been a single species with gene flow throughout its range, then we would expect the same gene flow across the population of lice that might have infested neanderthals. So even if neanderthals in the south lived without clothing, the neanderthals in the north almost certainly wore tight fitting clothing at least part of year. So the northern neaderthals would, in winter, act as a conduit from head to crotch to ensure neanderthal lice remained one single species.

The fact that we haven't been infested with any single species of lice that can live both on our heads and our crotch suggests either we are biochemically sufficiently different so neanderthal lice can't live on HSS, or we did not have very close contact with neanderthals very often, and neanderthal lice didn't have many opportunities to make the successful jump onto us. So we continue to keep the two species of lice that we bred when we were back in Africa.