Free Science Journal Articles on Neanderthal genome!

With the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome has come evidence that Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans did indeed interbreed after the 'final' migration out of Africa. This is amazing, and confirms many of the the ideas of researchers like Milfred Wolpoff and his students.

Two of the articles are free access:
http://sciencemag.org/special/neandertal/

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• multiregional
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• human
• evolution
• paleontology
• anthropology
• genes
• genetics

[Mdebacle]

@LithodidMan

That NM had the ape-like sequence , no doubt. The salient point is "a copy of these genes may have been added ...prior to the fusion event." i.e. our first ancestors with 46 were distinctly human.

Now the question becomes did NM have human chromosome 2 ?

The only response I have is from Hughes Institute: "The neanderthal DNA is not intact and the complete genome is not yet available. "

My bet is that NM chromosome 2 is human, at least at those 3 genes. What say you ?

[lopytube]

@Mdebacle

careful my amigo(I know,me neither lol)

Wiki likes to change text with the seasons.

Always purporting something also

[lopytube]

@LithodidMan yeah that pesky Wiki thing. I gotta look up the etytomology of that word again. It ws named WICCA I mean wikipedia for a reason. Must find out. But yeah I barely trust it. You can rest assure that if you search anything on there that isnt constant with the "mainstream"then bye bye. It won't be there.Or it is purported. Censorship shit makes me sick. But I understand censorship is vitally needed depending what viewpoint. [I know the punctuation is'nt correct]

[lopytube]

@sofiarune

Nice I do the samething when I can't read the sarcasm on the internet(which is why I never like online interaction)

I really was sincere but I'm afraid I have to face the-overwhelming "youtube professor".

Theres actually a video from collegehumor that touches on this.lol

But thats why took the safe zone and said hes at least aware.

I'm not certain

[McTaggStar]

I'm also really surprised you had anthropology students be rude to you like that. Typically there's a recognition among biological anthropologists that there needs to be discussion with pure biologists. Bio-anthro departments at schools like Duke and Harvard are getting it right by putting their students through rigorous courses in genetics, anatomy and physiology, and so on, but there's still a lot of headway to be made.

[McTaggStar]

It's true that anthropology programs generally aren't as rigorous in the hard sciences, and recently some programs have been developed leading to B.Sc degrees in anthropology and archaeological sciences. My program is an honours B.A., and I do quite a bit of extra-curricular biology reading to bring myself up to speed. No disrespect taken. They need to draw more on pure biology than they currently are.

[sofiarune]

@lopytube Beware of people who seem to know what they're talking about on the internet. Using jargon does not guarantee that they make sense. This place is full of google scholars.

Unless you're not being serious. In which case my defense is that sarcasm is hard to detect on the internet. :P

[LithodidMan]

@lopytube Nothing I have seen shows that Mdebacle knows anything of the field of genetics, evolution, or anthropology. Citing sources like "The Economist" and Wiki, and then getting them wrong is not a sign of knowing your stuff.

[LithodidMan]

@Mdebacle Again, I suspect you are trolling, but I'll bite. Chimpanzees have PGML, FOXD, and CBWD genes, just not the distal ends of their 2a & 2b chromosomes. Why would you think chimpanzees lack these genes? For example, CBWD is found in all Euarchontoglires (rodents, primates, etc), and probably most mammals. For fun, why don't you pick one of the genes you mention, download its sequence, then look for yourself from the NM genomic sequence. It's not hard to do, and the resources are free.

[Encephalitisify]

Scientifically, no one is recognizing the elephant in the room. Either you are mixed or not.