Evidence for interbreeding with Neanderthals, only Africans pure

[TigerToMany]

http://digitaljournal.com/article/291798#ixzz1gCeVBJWW

An international team of scientists have successfully sequenced the Neanderthal genome, and the evidence shows that humans in Europe, Asia and Papua New Guinea carry Neanderthal genes - while African peoples are 100 percent human.

An international team led by scientists from the respected Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have successfully sequenced 65 percent of the Neanderthal genome. It is the first time that the genetic code of an extinct human relative has been decoded, and the present announcement cam after 4 years of diligent study.

The results of this study, published Thursday last week, are similar to the findings reported (and foretold) last month here in Digital Journal, but the final publication of this study by researchers Svante Pääbo, Adrian Briggs and colleagues truly shows that years of denial about interbreeding between the two primates should now really come to an end.

Better yet, and a blow to Caucasian and Asian racists, the comparison of the human and Neanderthal genome makes it clear that it is only Africans who are 100 percent Homo sapiens, while in European (including American and Australian settlers) and Asian populations one can find up to 4 percent DNA stemming from the archaic and often maligned Neanderthal species - a hominid that went extinct more than 20,000 years ago. A graphic designer at the BBC has transformed this information into a surprising graphic everyone should take a look at.

Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/291798#ixzz1jg4xc7ia

[MarkCharles]

1. The genome news on this is a few months old, still good to point out.

I'm sort of still stuck on skin pigmentation news, the fact that lighter pigmented folks got more vitamin D from the sun than did our darker brothers and sisters and thus we had a survival advantage in northern climates.

The interplay of Neanderthal genes in that mix is something else to add to the calculus, as are probably other genetic advantages, like higher immunity to some diseases.

[greiner3]

2. Right about the same time frame as mentioned in the article;

10,000 for the interbreeding of Neanderthals, there occurred a single point mutation; blonde hair/blue eyes. This allowed the migrating humans that were settling Northern Europe to be able to convert the lessening sun's rays to vitamin D. Prior to this that ability had been less than optimal. That is why a lot of darker skinned people who live in the northern climes have more SAD, they can't convert the sun's rays to that vitamin D and the resultant chemical mishmash causes depression and a host of other problems.