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Title: Genetic Research Confirms That Non-Africans are Part Neanderthal
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American Renaissance
URL Source: http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2011/07/genetic_researc.php
Published: Jul 19, 2011
Author: William Ralliant-Clark
Post Date: 2011-07-19 11:15:30 by Turtle
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Views: 152
Comments: 5
Some of the human X chromosome originates from Neanderthals and is found exclusively in people outside Africa, according to an international team of researchers led by Damian Labuda of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Montreal and the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center. The research was published in the July issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution. “This confirms recent findings suggesting that the two populations interbred,” says Dr. Labuda. His team places the timing of such intimate contacts and/or family ties early on, probably at the crossroads of the Middle East. Neanderthals, whose ancestors left Africa about 400,000 to 800,000 years ago, evolved in what is now mainly France, Spain, Germany and Russia, and are thought to have lived until about 30,000 years ago. Meanwhile, early modern humans left Africa about 80,000 to 50,000 years ago. The question on everyone’s mind has always been whether the physically stronger Neanderthals, who possessed the gene for language and may have played the flute, were a separate species or could have interbred with modern humans. The answer is yes, the two lived in close association. “In addition, because our methods were totally independent of Neanderthal material, we can also conclude that previous results were not influenced by contaminating artifacts,” adds Dr. Labuda. Dr. Labuda and his team almost a decade ago had identified a piece of DNA (called a haplotype) in the human X chromosome that seemed different and whose origins they questioned. When the Neanderthal genome was sequenced in 2010, they quickly compared 6000 chromosomes from all parts of the world to the Neanderthal haplotype. The Neanderthal sequence was present in peoples across all continents, except for sub-Saharan Africa, and including Australia. “There is little doubt that this haplotype is present because of mating with our ancestors and Neanderthals. This is a very nice result, and further analysis may help determine more details,” says Dr. Nick Patterson, of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, a major researcher in human ancestry who was not involved in this study. “Dr. Labuda and his colleagues were the first to identify a genetic variation in non-Africans that was likely to have come from an archaic population. This was done entirely without the Neanderthal genome sequence, but in light of the Neanderthal sequence, it is now clear that they were absolutely right!” adds Dr. David Reich, a Harvard Medical School geneticist, one of the principal researchers in the Neanderthal genome project. So, speculates Dr. Labuda, did these exchanges contribute to our success across the world? “Variability is very important for long-term survival of a species,” says Dr. Labuda. “Every addition to the genome can be enriching.” An interesting match, indeed.
Poster Comment: I have been saying for years I was part Neanderthal. I instinctively knew it.
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#1. To: Turtle (#0)
Yes, and you have your lady X chromosome to thank for it, without which you could not speak, nor play the flute, if you were so inclined.
It is vital to understand that there is no truth without discernment and no wisdom without the truth. What then is “faith” but an effort to confound truth and wisdom?
Does this mean that non-Africans are less evolved than Africans, or what??
No it means that they have slightly different genetics. Nothing more. The essence, the "Force Vitale" as it was named by Bergson, remains the same. Man is a duality of spirit and body. The body is the vessel and the spirit the identity.
I should also add that the presumption that Neanderthalis, because of outward physical differences, was somehow less evolved is simply an unproved assumption. There is no clear evidence which would support that assumption. Just as any subjective derogation founded upon race it is without merit. As a side note I had the most curious experience about 3 years ago. I was on a downtown Portland street when a man walked by who could have literally stepped out of one of the anthropologic reconstructions for Homo Neanderthalis - complete with long arms, squared shoulders, and a prominent bony brow bridge. It blew my mind - he WAS literally a Neanderthal.
Russian heavyweight boxer.
"Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes." – P.J. O'Rourke, "A Parliament of Whores"
I have been saying for years I was part Neanderthal. I instinctively knew it.
#2. To: Turtle (#0)
#3. To: Shoonra (#2)
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#4. To: Shoonra, Turtle (#2)
Does this mean that non-Africans are less evolved than Africans, or what??
#5. To: Original_Intent (#4)
he WAS literally a Neanderthal.
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