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Musicmystery -> RE: Genes Say Some Are Part Neanderthal (5/7/2010 9:59:46 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Fantasies? [:D]
You don't understand the science half as well as you like to pretend that you do, Tim. For example, you asked here "It's not a matter of genes flowing in one direction--where'd you get that?"
The answer is, in the news article that I posted. Why don't you try reading it before ignorantly posting in the thread, so you're up to speed with the rest of us?
You also said "If we had Neanderthal DNA to analyze, presumably we'd find Homo sapien genes as well." Well, here's another news flash for you - the Yahoo News article is based on the Neanderthal DNA that was analyzed.
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
You lighten up. Overreacting here, aren't you?
So go back to your war and rape fantasies. I'm still more interested in the genetics.
Oh....don't forget that aliens could have landed and forced them to interbreed as an experiment.
You're drawing a hasty conclusion, Thomas old chap.
Obviously, offspring from a union is going to mix genes from both parents. It's not like we have a wealth of Neaderthal DNA, so enter the speculation. Perhaps the mixing happened earlier, before homo sapiens crowded out or killed off the Neaderthal. Perhaps any number of things. Who knows? There's no reason to suppose the offspring were only born to one of the groups.
But the article points out that, using Neanderthal DNA, we found it in homo sapiens. It does not discuss looking for homo sapiens DNA in Neanderthal, which, presumably, would be quite a challenge. But genes still aren't one way.
As for the rest, I don't understand the science at all, and neither do you. We aren't geneticists.
I do understand the difference between research and fantasies about primitive life. I suppose both have their place. They aren't, however, interchangeable.
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