Elysse Baumbach, 2/22/16
If Neanderthals interbred with modern humans as early as new
findings suggest, the distinction becomes meaningless.
“Our first sex with
Neanderthals happened 100,000 years ago,” New Scientist shouts. This is a shocking story of a tryst that is
steamier than any dime novel. It was announced in Nature by Dr. Sergi Castellano
and a research team from Max Planck Institute. Colin Barras reports,
It was a two-way street.
Many people carry ancient Neanderthal DNA in their
genome as a result of cross-species liaisons around 50,000 years ago. Now it
seems that some Neanderthals carried our DNA, too.
The BBC News agrees with the 100,000-year date for the secret dating
encounter, but things gets worse. Where did the liaison take place? According
to Live Science, if you guessed the
Fertile Crescent, you’re getting warmer.
Castellano and his
colleagues speculated that the episode of interbreeding they detected may have
occurred in the Levant, the eastern Mediterranean region that includes Israel and Syria.
Previous research suggested that modern humans and Neanderthals were present in
the Levant as early as 120,000 years ago. Another potential location for this interbreeding
was Southern Arabia and the area around the Persian Gulf, they added.
“The exact place where the
gene flow occurred is not settled, but the
Near East fits the fossil evidence we currently have,”
Castellano told Live Science.
Comments
Now we
know why God sent the flood so we could start all over again. It doesn’t
explain how we got Liberals and why they don’t know economics, but it could
shed some light on the current behavior of Syrian Refugees. We should check
them for Neanderthal DNA.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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