Another one flying in the faces of creationist - Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens had sex
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June 22, 2015 at 3:55 pm
I remember it being all over the science news in 2010, the interbreeding between HS and Neanderthal. This individual had a particularly high percentage though.
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June 22, 2015 at 4:14 pm
HNS ranged from Britain to the Crimea and from the 50th parallel south to the Med. In the Levant they have been detected in modern Israel. Yet, in all that vast span it is estimated that at their peak there were but 70,000 HNS. This begs the question of how large could any of these various groups have been. In a population of 20-30 how many breeding females could there have been?
It is not terribly surprising that there are evolutionary dead ends.  RE: Another one flying in the faces of creationist - Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens had sex
June 22, 2015 at 4:41 pm
(June 22, 2015 at 3:55 pm)Alex K Wrote: This individual had a particularly high percentage though. That's the point of this study.
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June 22, 2015 at 11:03 pm
I guess there's quite a few possible explanations as to why a pre-historic European might have had more Neanderthal ancestry than we have today. I'd guess the best one is that maybe the "aboriginal" modern humans in Europe back then had more Neanderthal ancestry, but it got gradually watered down as successive waves of modern human migration into Europe happened from Asia and Africa. Makes sense.
Either that or some groups of early Europeans had lots of Neanderthal ancestry while others had none, and after they all migrated and bred with eachother it homogenised.
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June 23, 2015 at 12:45 am
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Or some of the Neanderthal genes Homo sapiens inherited had subtle detrimental effect on the survival of those bearing the genes, so over large number generations these subtlety detrimental Neanderthal genes were gradually eliminated from the gene pool, leaving only Neanderthal genes that were neutral or positive for survival, resulting in descendant populations having fewer Neanderthal genes overall than ancestral populations, without any later admixture with populations that had no Neanderthal genes.
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June 23, 2015 at 4:20 am
Maybe if I were a Neanderthal I might get to have sex with a Homo Sapiens one day.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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June 23, 2015 at 4:24 am
(June 23, 2015 at 4:20 am)Stimbo Wrote: Maybe if I were a Neanderthal I might get to have sex with a Homo Sapiens one day. You might try go to a plastic surgeon and get bulging brows and a slightly fleeting forehead installed. Then get some protein shakes and amphetamines, and you'll look more neanderthal than the old man of la chapelle.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
RE: Another one flying in the faces of creationist - Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens had sex
June 23, 2015 at 4:39 am
Yeah - "installed"...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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