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Author Topic:   40k-Year-Old Man Had Recent Neanderthal Ancestor
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06-23-2015 5:11 PM


Apparently a man who lived only forty thousand years ago had Neanderthal ancestors only a few generations back.
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"Early Man from Romania Had Close Neanderthal Relatives, DNA Shows" from L A Times:
A new discovery, announced Monday in the journal Nature, adds a piece to the puzzle. DNA testing of an ancient jawbone has confirmed that a man who lived in Romania about 40,000 years ago descended from a Neanderthal ancestor just four to six generations — less than 200 years — before him.
"To our amazement, this guy had three or four times more Neanderthal DNA than any modern human we had ever looked at," said Svante Paabo, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and co-senior author of the Nature study. "This is the first time we can say it's dramatically more, and close in the family tree."
Genetic evidence has been the basis of the OOA model of human origins and is usually considered standing in contrast to the physical evidence which supports the Multiregional model.
But some of these new findings (see the other thread: New Type of Ancient Human FoundDescendants Live Today? ) show us that the genetic evidence, when considered in its entirety, is more likely going to end up supporting the MH model than it will the OOA model (which is now as full of holes as Swiss cheese).

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06-23-2015 5:46 PM


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