Neanderthal genes 'survive in us'

pretty sure i saw a few last time i was at the pub,lol

I knew it, I knew it. I called this years ago. My predictions have to do with autism. I've read a lot that seems to correlate autism, ADHD, and other mental diseases to the possible interbreeding of multiple homo species. I think that this interbreeding between species with such advanced but divergent brain structures led to the modern prevalence for mental disorders. People like me, with Asperger's syndrome, have more neanderthal than most in them, and a more neanderthal psychology, which, contrary to common opinion, was not necessarily brutish and violent, but may have beem sophisticated, eg... [More]

I see . so we eat the male, we bed the female .

That is indeed very interesting news

I knew it, I knew it. I called this years ago. My predictions have to do with autism. I've read a lot that seems to correlate autism, ADHD, and other mental diseases to the possible interbreeding of multiple homo species. I think that this interbreeding between species with such advanced but divergent brain structures led to the modern prevalence for mental disorders. People like me, with Asperger's syndrome, have more neanderthal than most in them, and a more neanderthal psychology, which, contrary to common opinion, was not necessarily brutish and violent, but may have beem sophisticated, eg... [More]

I really don't find this study hard to believe at all. Modern men will go after just about anything, so why wouldn't the men of neanderthal times? If a lion and a tiger can have childred, or a horse and a mule, or a grizzly and a polar bear, then these two human types probably could too. The percentage of stirility probably was not as bad as in many hybrid species, or perhaps the few that were not stirile were very sexually active. Perhaps larger and stronger, which were survival traits of the time.

I really don't find this study hard to believe at all. Modern men will go after just about anything, so why wouldn't the men of neanderthal times? If a lion and a tiger can have childred, or a horse and a mule, or a grizzly and a polar bear, then these two human types probably could too. The percentage of stirility probably was not as bad as in many hybrid species, or perhaps the few that were not stirile were very sexually active. Perhaps larger and stronger, which were survival traits of the time. LOL, almost anything I was hoping this would be the case, I had my own pet theories that we int... [More]

Got to say as a redhead frae Scotland that I know I carry the Neanderthal bloodline. I'd be devastated if they presented evidence to say that Neanderthals weren't redheads. My missus calls me a Neanderthal regularly. There's my evidence!!

Got to say as a redhead frae Scotland that I know I carry the Neanderthal bloodline. I'd be devastated if they presented evidence to say that Neanderthals weren't redheads. My missus calls me a Neanderthal regularly. There's my evidence!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7062415.stm