All contemporary Europeans and Asians are a bit Neanderthal but Africans are not, scientists revealed yesterday.
They found that everyone of Eurasian origin, including people from east Asia and New Guinea, where Neanderthals never lived, carried a similar amount of Neanderthal DNA, while sub-Saharan Africans had none.
The draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome, obtained from DNA fragments extracted from 40,000-year-old bones, shows that ancestors of modern Eurasians interbred to some extent with the Neanderthals they encountered as they moved out of Africa between 50,000 and 80,000 years ago.
The discovery, published in the journal Science , contradicts the view of most palaeontologists that there was no interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans.
A large international research effort, led by Svente Pääbo of the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, has deciphered about 60 per cent of the Neanderthal genome.
"The results show that 1 to 4 per cent of the DNA in people of non-African ancestry is from the Neanderthals," said Prof Pääbo. "The Neanderthals are not totally extinct. In some of us a little bit of them lives on."
The researchers' main raw material was powder extracted from three fossilised bones found in a Croatian cave, as well as bones excavated in Spain, Germany and Russia.
The scientists used several gene sequencing technologies and powerful computer programs to piece together the degraded fragments of Neanderthal DNA and extract them from all the bacterial and other contaminants that built up in the bones over tens of thousands of years.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/05/07/neanderthal.human.genome/index.html?iref=allsearch
I find this most intriguing, the thought of myself and others carrying the Neanderthal Gene, well, is overwhelming. I, for one am excited and I plan to research more on this. Makes sense though, as to how we have the knowledge to do things that were never taught to us by our parents. The Instinct to Survive,.......
ReplyDeleteGo on google and type in 'countries by murder rate' and you'll get a link to wikipedia. See the countries with no neanderthal genes right at the top of the list.
ReplyDeleteThey are the most violent ones.
Deletethe prehistoric sources of the white race's aggression, racism and sexism.
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If there's anything sub-Saharan Africans are known for, it's their enlightened, progressive attitudes toward women, the total lack of internecine warfare, and low violent crime rate.
Is this blog intentionally bigoted?
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's kind of a retail site for 'reverse' racism. One could call it "whitewashing" if it weren't for its, er, 'progressive' outlook.
ReplyDeleteJunk science. The HLB 73 gene isnt proof of ANY hybridization of a Human Neanderthal pairing. The root of this science is racism with no peer review.
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