Looks like some of our ancestors got up close and personal with the Neanderthals:
Many people alive today possess some Neanderthal ancestry, according to a landmark scientific study.
The finding has surprised many experts, as previous genetic evidence suggested the Neanderthals made little or no contribution to our inheritance.
The result comes from analysis of the Neanderthal genome – the “instruction manual” describing how these ancient humans were put together.
Between 1% and 4% of the Eurasian human genome seems to come from Neanderthals.
But the study confirms living humans overwhelmingly trace their ancestry to a small population of Africans who later spread out across the world.
My new theory is that fundamentalists inherit more of the Neanderthal genome than others…
Danial said, “My new theory is that fundamentalists inherit more of the Neanderthal genome than others…”
Why do you insult the Neanderthals?
Yeah didn’t they have more brain then us? And a better tool set?
“Why do you insult the Neanderthals?”
Is he?
There was nothing wrong with Cain and Seth, sons of Adam the neanderthal marrying the daughters of human.
I’ve always felt that the story of Essau was about weeded out the Neanderthal progeny. That’s why Joseph, his mother and Isaac conspired to rob Essau of his heritage.
…weeding out…
Damn. I meant Jacob and mother…
I wonder if the phenomenon of abnormally hairy people can be linked to Neanderthal DNA. And what makes scientists think that Neanderthals were hairy anyway?
http://freaks.monstrous.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=37&pos=2
I heard that there is a cave in downtown Dallas where, millions of years ago, Neanderthals wrote down a series of inscription which formed the basis of the original bible! Of course, that was before god turned them all into Native American Indians – and modern Texas christians tried to rewrite history.
Not my mom. She comes from one of the 10 tribes of Israel.
I know, I laughed when she told me too.
I know it’s shallow and mean, but I’d believe it judging from some of the protruding brows I’ve seen.
I am confused. How can we be the image of god and have Neanderthal DNA?
God was actually a Neanderthal.
Well d’uh.
So that explains why both evolution and creation can be true. God created the Neanderthal in his own image and we humans just evolved. It also means that rapture already happened since the Neanderthal are already in heaven.
Did not the neanderthal say,”But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.” 2000 yrs ago?
Regarding your question……why not?
Neanderthal was just another human.
And the interbreeding happened after, or right before the “pioneering group” left Africa, therefore Whites are less human than blacks. This would be funny if the irony wasn’t so historically tragic…
Unfortunately, there was an article at the Huffington Post that claimed that “we” (’cause I guess no black people read the Huffpo) should be thankful for the leftover Neanderthal genes, because they must be responsible for basically every human advancement that has ever occurred, because ‘humans didn’t do anything noteworthy for the first several thousand years of existence.’ The author seemed totally oblivious to the historical ignorance and blatant racism of that statement.
OH, silly scientists! Have you not seen this poster from the creation museum? It clearly shows Neanderthals called Noah “grandpa”.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/08/more_stuff_we_missed_at_the_cr.php
The bibull tells me so…
Is the poster for sale?
Maybe we can do a group buy.
I checked out the virtual store and can’t find this poster for sale. As far as I know, this picture was snapped by someone when they did the tour. I may just print off a copy just for giggles,
That was a good post. If you stare at the “Evolutionary Ancestor” picture for a while, it starts to look like Joel Osteen.
You are really insulting the Neanderthals. If the whole Brain mass to Body mass ratio is to be trusted, Neanderthals were more intelligent than us. They had both a larger brain, and a higher Brain:Body ratio.
I recently saw an excellent documentary on the History channel in the “Ancient Weather” series, and it discussed how climate change in Europe was one of the things that likely lead to their demise. There was also an interesting discussion about how our ancestors would cooperate more and it helped our survival.
Wait, wait, wait…. Daniel!!! Do I detect a…. penis… in that picture? Shame on you, pornographer!!!!
:P
Then again, this is the Internet, and we all know what the Internet is for… ;)
So easy even a caveman can do it… (someone had to say it!)
ahem.
Robert Pattinson’s eyebrows.