Apparently this link will find your local station and ascertain whether there are upcoming episodes on it. US only, I suspect.
I wonder how creationists account for the fact that pure blood African's have almost no DNA from Neandertals but only people from Asia and Europe have up to 3% even now, tens of thousands of years later? For us to have 3% from say 50,000 years ago NOW would seem to imply something more like 50% Neandertal genes from the interacting populations of Israel where they seem to have first interbred over 50,000 years ago.
Originally posted by sonhouse I wonder how creationists account for the fact that pure blood African's have almost no DNA from Neandertals but only people from Asia and Europe have up to 3% even now, tens of thousands of years later? For us to have 3% from say 50,000 years ago NOW would seem to imply something more like 50% Neandertal genes from the interacting populations of Israel where they seem to have first interbred over 50,000 years ago.
Originally posted by sonhouse Back to your trolling MO, can't answer the link, since you have no thoughts of your own, so you go back to ad hominem attacks.
Originally posted by sonhouse from the interacting populations of Israel where they seem to have first interbred over 50,000 years ago.
Is this new information, perhaps from this show? I've never heard that they had pin-pointed specific sites of interbreeeding nor of what peoples they interbred with.
Originally posted by Suzianne Is this new information, perhaps from this show? I've never heard that they had pin-pointed specific sites of interbreeeding nor of what peoples they interbred with.
I don't remember what was in the show but here is a link.
It isn't well referenced - only mentions the Nature publication.
Thanks for the link! I will go look at it now.
EDIT: Interesting article. First I've heard of this, but it is kind of "new" news (from the end of January, anyways). Of all the semi-scientific magazines I get, Nature isn't one of them, sorry to say.
Originally posted by sonhouse I wonder how creationists account for the fact that pure blood African's have almost no DNA from Neandertals but only people from Asia and Europe have up to 3% even now, tens of thousands of years later? For us to have 3% from say 50,000 years ago NOW would seem to imply something more like 50% Neandertal genes from the interacting populations of Israel where they seem to have first interbred over 50,000 years ago.
Originally posted by sonhouse For us to have 3% from say 50,000 years ago NOW would seem to imply something more like 50% Neandertal genes from the interacting populations of Israel where they seem to have first interbred over 50,000 years ago.
No, that is not how it works.
Of course the very first 'love child' would have had 50/50 or something close to that, but beyond that we cannot say how many genes remained in the populations or how they spread apart from the 3% that is still there. It is likely that very few neanderthal genes remained for long in the human population even in the early stages.
It would be interesting to know exactly what the Neanderthal DNA does if anything.
11 Sep '15 15:47
Great PBS show: "First Peoples":
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