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Would you? First Europeans "shunned Neanderthal sex"

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Analysis of 28,000-year-old human DNA suggests that, while they may have co-existed with Neanderthals, "hybridisation" did not occur.

The 'Cro-Magnon' people were the first Homo Sapiens to colonise Europe, and lived between 45,000 and 10,000 years ago. The results showed that their DNA is a close match to modern Europeans, with no obvious Neanderthal influences.

Although this doesn't rule out the possibility that a few inter-species couples ... I'll stop there.
rwylie

20 responses // Would you? First Europeans "shunned Neanderthal sex"

  • now THAT is racism... LOL....
    i mean i wouldnt do that thing... partly cuz im not gay.... but if i was.. i still wouldnt
    kewal91
  • Well, more acurately species-ism. I reckon the two groups probably just kept themselves to themselves, kindof like humans and chimps today, although they were much more alike than that.
    rwylie
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  • Not really a surprise. With all the racism that exist I can't imagine how bad it would have been for a different species.
    brad149
  • Ummm, I don't think the point is racism: SPECIES are not generally 'meant' to hybridise.
    rwylie
  • Yeah, it's less like an interracial couple and more like if you were to date a chimp.

    This is interesting rwylie, I had seen an episode of The Naked Archaeologist talking about this and always wondered if our ancestors were tapping that Neanderthal ass.
    DeliaTheArtist
  • i saw that guy the other day on the El train.
    Ras_Yuhanna
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  • Say no to Neanderthal Marriages! It's sinful and will ruin the sanctity of marriage as we know it!
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    TyMarshal
  • This is quite interesting, but I am just wondering - what did humans look like at the time?
    JanaPokana
  • http://www.visindavefur.is/myndir/scene_cro_magnon_big....
    What a cro-magnon woman and baby (and man in background) may have looked like.

    Apparantly they weren't that physically different from man today. Whereas that Neanderthal is.
    Ben_Traffic_UK
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  • ive slept with worse after a few beers.
    teddy14
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  • Strange article. This info is about 10 years old. Many ancient sites suggest Neanderthals and early humans sometimes working together; mostly trading technologies, primarily early human tech to Neanderthals. It's proposed that Neanderthals didn't or couldn't adapt these new technologies as fast as early humans and subsequently perished.
    Kewara81
  • Kind of destroys Jean Auel's entire story line.
    tim4change
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  • Beer hadn't been invented then yet
    SamuraiDave
  • 28,000 years is nothing in evolutionary terms: I would bet a lot that if we met a cro-magnon today we couldn't tell the difference.

    Apart from all the grunting, spear throwing, and them cowering in fear at traffic, of course.
    rwylie
  • would i? With that sexy beast up there? You Betcha!
    SilenceNoMore

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