The Neandertal in us

The Neandertal, the enigmatic Stone Age man who appears to have vanished without a trace from the earth 30,000 years ago, lives on in us modern humans. Each of us carries up to four percent of Neandertal genes. Researchers working with Svante Pääno at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig worked on the decoding of the Neandertal genome for 20 years and compared it with the Homo sapiens genome. In the process, the researchers explored a series of questions: What does the Neandertal genome divulge about us modern humans, and how do we differ from each other? Which human capacities and characteristics hark back to Stone Age man? Why did our closest relative become extinct? One thing is now certain: the Neandertal and modern man mixed - and we are far more closely related than we previously believed.

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More information:
The Neandertal genome project
www.eva.mpg.de/neandertal/index.html
Press releases, photographs and film footage
www.eva.mpg.de/neandertal/press/press_kit.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• neandertal
• anthropology
• DNA
• genome
• Homo
• human
• evolution
• origin

[IAmProletariAN]

they suddenly display the neatherthals as less primitive or ugly once they found the genes in us,,, lol, PEOPLE

[mudshovel289]

@duckmanjoel You definitely DO need good eyesight to spot a predator, movement in the bushes, etc. Nearsightedness became much more common once good eyesight was no longer essential to survival which was probably after civilizations started.

[jerome4445]

@duckmanjoel , I guess intelligents and nearsightedness wasn't necessary to build all that neat shit in Khemet?

[anywayokey]

Wait a second I thought race was just a social construct? What happened?

[IAmProletariAN]

@Francesko263 according to my vision, everywhere :)

[Oswulf1]

@NatureChasing Back when 'Neanderthal' was taken into English, the German word 'Tal' (=valley) was spelt 'Thal' but pronounced 'Tal'. German spelling was simplified towards the end of the 19th century.

[Oswulf1]

@Francesko263 Who, Neanderthals? Their remains have been found in Europe and the Near East (Palestine, I think).

[Francesko263]

Where did they live? In Africa or in Asia? Or in Europe?

[NatureChasing]

@GiveEmHellMCR Somone is a complete retard, go look up Latin and then the phoneme for TH, its pronounced as a hard T. MOROOOOON.

[GiveEmHellMCR]

STOP SAYING NEANDERTTTTTTTTTTAAAWL