Something about Neanderthals - How Neanderthal are you?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I have read that my R A comes from my Neanderthal genes
Drsmash253
Level 7
Jan 6, 2019
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Not being 'racist' here but when one looks at the facial features of older, non-inter-bred Australian Aboriginal one can see some the remaining traits of Neanderthal - Homo Sapien interbreeding.
In particular the thickened brow ridges, the broader flatter noses, etc.
In fact I'm bloody proud that my genome carries some Neanderthal within it.
Triphid
Level 9
Dec 29, 2018
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In Jasper Fforde's novel "Lost in a Good Book", the world contain re-engineered, sterile Neanderthals. The storyline around those people is very interesting - cultured, artistic and family-oriented. (There are also re-engineered woolly mammoths and dodos.)
pixiedust
Level 8
Dec 29, 2018
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A lot of the problems stem from hubris. Because we used to think that humans were really special, and because everyone working in anthropology thinks that their discoveries are really important, we end up with dozens of species names and several genera for a few fossils spread over just a few million years. If the great apes of Africa were treated the same as every other group of animals, then we would all be in one genera and there would within that genera be two three species of humans at most.
Fernapple
Level 9
Dec 29, 2018
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Apparently not at all, according to Ancestry.com.
Deb57
Level 8
Dec 29, 2018
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Then you must be of African decent or ancestry.com is wrong.
Ancestry.com I' sorry to say is a bit of a joke in my opinion.
A few years ago, after tracing my paternal line back as far as I possibly could go, I tried Ancestry.com and they came up with something entirely different and 100% incorrect.
Their result was that my paternal line arose from a Wilhelm from a very small village in southern Austria when I still have a document sealed with the seal of William the Conqueror acknowledging the birth, although out of marriage, of his son by a Myffanwyy, a serving girl at his Court post 1066, from the region of Wales now called Glamorgan, ( the Pontypridd region) Wales which is exactly where my paternal Grandparents and their parents, Grand-Parents and predecessors all come from originally.
According to ancestry.com, I have almost no Neanderthal in my blood line.
Surfpirate
Level 9
Dec 29, 2018
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where do you find that section regarding neanderthal dna? All I see is the geographic breakdown
@Lucy_Fehr Did you get the complete analysis? Mine covered the neanderthal component and it was less than 1%, either .08% or .8%.
@Surfpirate I did but ancestry.com does not do neanderthal variant testing according to a forum on the site. Something about only going back the last 500 years or so.
I am also on 23andMe which does do that variant test and I have 274 variants.
@Lucy_Fehr You're right, it was 23 and Me that I used. Sorry
@Surfpirate All good. I just thought I was missing out on something lol
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