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Outcrossing with Neandertals. Sexy.
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So Science (the magazine) has some cool news today!
They sequenced the Neandertal genome!
This is a Neandertal:
and they haven't been around for like 30,000 years. They had bigger heads than we do, they used to live in Europe mostly, and they are named for the region in Germany where their remains were first discovered.
These science dudes used the genome to show that humans and Neandertals interbred with each other at least a little bit during the ~1,000 years we coexisted. That's nasty, yo. Or hot? Maybe soon there will be Neadertal porn.
...there is probably already Neandertal porn.
Anyway the paper is freely available to the public, which is awesome. There is also an article that is more for laymen that is here.
This is incredibly cool to me since this is the exact kind of thing I do for work, but maybe I am the only one who thinks sequencing 30,000 year old DNA is cool.
They sequenced the Neandertal genome!
This is a Neandertal:
and they haven't been around for like 30,000 years. They had bigger heads than we do, they used to live in Europe mostly, and they are named for the region in Germany where their remains were first discovered.
These science dudes used the genome to show that humans and Neandertals interbred with each other at least a little bit during the ~1,000 years we coexisted. That's nasty, yo. Or hot? Maybe soon there will be Neadertal porn.
...there is probably already Neandertal porn.
Anyway the paper is freely available to the public, which is awesome. There is also an article that is more for laymen that is here.
This is incredibly cool to me since this is the exact kind of thing I do for work, but maybe I am the only one who thinks sequencing 30,000 year old DNA is cool.
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because dang
not african americans
dang it is hard to come up with a good name for what I'm trying to say
them there coloreds
hiding amongst us
hidden
waiting for the chance to strike us down
neanderthals are not part of the homo sapien genetic line
there was a split with our evolutionary ancestors that resulted in neanderthals
Also yeah I guess they have more in common with Europeans than anyone else genetically.
True, but the coolest part of this thing is that we apparently bred with each other! Modern people have Neandertal genes. That is crazy to me.
oh goddamnit I knew that
i am being dumb tonight from all the love i am giving out
because they essentially only lived in europe and possibly central and western asia
Probably all three. There's no real evidence or much reason to believe that humans would just decide spontaneously across eurasia to wipe out neanderthals in totality, but I doubt we ignored each other either.
It's pretty crazy to think how just a (relatively) short few thousand years ago homo sapiens was chilling with a bunch of other intelligent plains walking apes.
But there could only be one
how?
was the interbreeding that common?
uh did the paper actually say that
interbreeding and producing viable and sustainable offspring are very different
I'm vandal savage
i assume he read a book or two instead of doing drugs all the time
ahem
Look we've got one right here!
What spring does with the cherry trees.
them.
whatever.
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some would argue
this may have actually happened at some point btw
Images I need brain bleach to clense
never works out well in fiction, though
This is pretty cool.
I should read up on these [strike]coloreds[/strike] Neanderthals.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
As far as I remember they were bigger than us, stronger than us and had slightly larger brains.
It would probably have been the other way around.
did we use sky cake?
obviously there were different and therefore worse
that's how discrimination works, xyyz
geez ain't you ever been white
we are the neanderthals
well... not africans.
ain't that ironic
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