Love child in your DNA

[packman]

" genetic research determined the DNA of people with European and Asian ancestry is 1 to 4 percent Neanderthal." - and the research has shown it was a male homo sapient who mated with a Neanderthal female to give us that 1 to 4 percent.

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http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/neanderthal-skeleton-provides-evidence-of-interbreeding-with-humans-130327.htm

God, the things you find on the internet - but I do believe Republicans would test higher for Neanderthal DNA
Waiting for first reply saying how insensitive I am to our distant cousins.

[frogmarch]

1. Neat!

I like the idea and I also like the picture - and the song.

Here's another love child of ours.

[MosheFeingold]

9. Neaderthals were not stupid

Indeed, they had a markedly larger brain than homo sapien sapiens.

And they were bigger and stronger, including the women, so this guy probably liked it a bit rough.

What there were not good at is having babies. We simply out bred them.

[Tobin S.]

2. That's pretty cool.

I've heard somewhere that white people get red hair from a Neanderthal gene.

[Arugula Latte]

3. They say once you go Neanderthal, you'll never go back to homo sapiens at all.

[DFW]

4. Seeing as how the original (and real) Neanderthal is a 20 minuite drive from me

There is probably more of it here.
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[jakeXT]

5. It was winter and probably cold

A particularly unexciting-looking toe bone from a cave site in Siberia, dating to 30,000-50,000 years ago, provided the next ancient genetic revelation. The DNA extracted from the bone was clearly not modern human in origin, but it wasn't Neanderthal either. For now, these mysterious ancient people are just called the "Denisovans", after the cave where the toe bone was found. The Denisovans also seem to have interbred with modern humans: fragments of Denisovan DNA are found in the genomes of living Melanesians.

By the end of last year, with an ever-growing sample of Neanderthal genomes, geneticists had identified three to five instances of gene flow between different populations: between Neanderthals and modern humans, Denisovans and modern humans, and between Neanderthals and Denisovans. There even seems to be an input into the Denisovan genome from an even more ancient lineage – which might turn out to be Homo erectus. Although the flow from one genome into another is quite small, a few per cent at most, there's now clear evidence for interbreeding between ancient populations.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/23/neanderthals-and-me-go-back-a-long-way-alice-roberts

[LiberalElite]

6. That might explain the

miniscule percentage that Ancestry.com couldn't account for in my test results. Uncle UGGH!

[lindysalsagal]

7. Been there. Dated that.

Totally depressed....

[hunter]

8. Neanderthals were probably much nicer folk than their bloody-minded cousins.

Their lands were taken over by savages.