For those not aware of the achievements of the science of genetics, the reading of the page http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8660940.stm is a must.
Only sub-Saharan populations are genuine members of the race of the Homo sapiens sapiens. All the rest are contaminated with the genome of the Neanderthals.
It is to be noted, however, that the gene flow went one way: from Neanderthals to Homo sapiens sapiens and not vice-versa. It is obvious that the interbreeding was forced and since the powerful ones, the victors, were the Hss it follows that it was not their women who received the genes of the Neanderthals, it was the Neanderthal women, raped by the victorious Hss male, who contributed their genes to the gene pool of the resulting hybrid offspring.
The first girl who was born to mixed parents was Neanderthal by 50%.
The daughter of that girl was impregnated by either a still pure-blood Hss or a newly produced male hybrid. In any case her Neanderthal genome dropped below that of her mother and it continued to drop until it reached today’s level.
Virgin Mary was a common human with the normal 1%-4% share of Neanderthal genome. That is a non-disputable fact.
The debate question is therefore: what percentage of this 1% to 4% of Neanderthal genome was passed on to her child, given the awkward circumstances of his conception?
Only sub-Saharan populations are genuine members of the race of the Homo sapiens sapiens. All the rest are contaminated with the genome of the Neanderthals.
It is to be noted, however, that the gene flow went one way: from Neanderthals to Homo sapiens sapiens and not vice-versa. It is obvious that the interbreeding was forced and since the powerful ones, the victors, were the Hss it follows that it was not their women who received the genes of the Neanderthals, it was the Neanderthal women, raped by the victorious Hss male, who contributed their genes to the gene pool of the resulting hybrid offspring.
The first girl who was born to mixed parents was Neanderthal by 50%.
The daughter of that girl was impregnated by either a still pure-blood Hss or a newly produced male hybrid. In any case her Neanderthal genome dropped below that of her mother and it continued to drop until it reached today’s level.
Virgin Mary was a common human with the normal 1%-4% share of Neanderthal genome. That is a non-disputable fact.
The debate question is therefore: what percentage of this 1% to 4% of Neanderthal genome was passed on to her child, given the awkward circumstances of his conception?
"Culture is memory"
Yuri Lotman
Yuri Lotman
