{"id":15108,"date":"2022-08-08T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/?p=15108"},"modified":"2022-08-08T13:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:03:24","slug":"20-things-you-might-not-know-about-neanderthals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/20-things-you-might-not-know-about-neanderthals\/","title":{"rendered":"20 things you might not know about Neanderthals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"20 things you might not know about Neanderthals\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rh-negative-blood-and-people\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lNPCSw4kJM\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/how-advanced-were-the-neanderthals\/\">How advanced were the Neanderthals?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;How advanced were the Neanderthals?&#8221; &#8212; The Rh Negative Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/how-advanced-were-the-neanderthals\/embed\/#?secret=D1VWyJBF65#?secret=lNPCSw4kJM\" data-secret=\"lNPCSw4kJM\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong>\u00a0You\u2019re pretty much a Neanderthal. While it\u2019s been more than 5 million years since we parted ways with chimps, it has been only 400,000 since human and Neanderthal lineages split.<br><strong>2.<\/strong>\u00a0If you\u2019re Asian or Caucasian, your ancestors interbred with Neanderthals as recently as 37,000 years ago, when they crossed paths in Europe.<br><strong>3.<\/strong>\u00a0And that sex had benefits. Inherited Neanderthal genes come in alleles that help fight off nasty viruses such as Epstein-Barr \u2014 associated with several kinds of cancer, says Stanford University immunologist Laurent Abi-Rached.<br><strong>4.<\/strong>\u00a0If you want to know how much Neanderthal DNA you carry, just swab your cheek and send it to the National Geographic Society\u2019s Genographic Project. Or you could have your entire genome sequenced as Ozzy Osbourne did in 2010. Researchers found a telltale Neanderthal segment on his chromosome 10.<br><strong>5.<\/strong>\u00a0Now that the whole Neanderthal genome has been sequenced, Harvard geneticist George Church thinks a clone could be gestated in a human surrogate mother. It could even be beneficial, he believes, because the Neanderthal mind might be able to solve problems we can\u2019t.<br><strong>6.<\/strong>\u00a0Practically nobody believed you could read a Neanderthal\u2019s genes until 2010, when the paleogeneticist Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo successfully sequenced DNA from three Neanderthal skeletons found in Croatia.<br><strong>7.<\/strong>\u00a0The first evidence of Neanderthals was discovered in 1856. Miners in Germany\u2019s Neander Valley found fossils thought to belong to a cave bear. A local natural historian begged to differ. He reckoned the strange bones were the remains of a lost Cossack suffering from rickets.<br><strong>8.<\/strong>\u00a0Charles Darwin published\u00a0<em>On the Origin of Species<\/em>\u00a0three years later. In the context of Darwin\u2019s theories of evolution, the bones were re-examined by anatomist William King, who promptly named them\u00a0<em>Homo neanderthalensis<\/em>, a name that provocatively (and incorrectly) suggested they were the missing link between apes and humans.<br><strong>9.<\/strong>\u00a0As late as the mid-1970s, creationists were still claiming Neanderthal fossils were the remains of modern humans with acromegaly or arthritis.<br><strong>10.<\/strong>\u00a0Paleontologist Marcellin Boule would have been well advised to study pathology. Between 1909 and 1911, he reconstructed the first skeleton of a Neanderthal \u2014 who happened to be arthritic. Thus was born the degenerate, slouching image of Neanderthals.<br><strong>11.<\/strong>\u00a0They were the ultimate craftsmen, able to pick up impressive skills through practice, but none too creative, say anthropologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.<br><strong>12.<\/strong>\u00a0Credit Neanderthals with a couple of great ideas: They made spears by hafting stone points to wooden shafts, and bonding them with glue.<br><strong>13.<\/strong>\u00a0They threw those spears at bison and woolly rhinoceros, resulting in hunting injuries that would end the career of a linebacker.<br><strong>14.<\/strong>\u00a0Not that a maimed Neanderthal could afford to retire. Instead they nursed each other back to health, enlisting their greatest concept of all: empathy.<br><strong>15.<\/strong>\u00a0They also had medicine. Traces of chamomile and yarrow, two anti-inflammatories, have been detected in the plaque on Neanderthal teeth.<br><strong>16.<\/strong>\u00a0Or are these pungent traces of haute cuisine? Neanderthals balanced their carnivorous diets with vegetables roasted over smoky fires.<br><strong>17.<\/strong>\u00a0And they had a sense of style. Archaeologists have recovered a yellow pigment in southern Spain that may have been used as foundation for their skin.<br><strong>18.<\/strong>\u00a0Evidently Spain was the place to be if you were a Neanderthal with cultural pretensions. Last summer, paintings in El Castillo Cave on the Pas River were found to be at least 40,800 years old.<br><strong>19.<\/strong>\u00a0They were better painters than talkers. The anatomy of their vocal tracts would have prevented them from sounding some vowels.<br><strong>20.<\/strong>\u00a0In any case, we lost our chance at conversation, since they died out some 25,000 years ago. Their last refuge was Gibraltar, now a haven for tax evaders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seen here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eupedia.com\/forum\/threads\/24894-Neanderthal-facts-and-myths\/page3\">https:\/\/www.eupedia.com\/forum\/threads\/24894-Neanderthal-facts-and-myths\/page3<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"20 things you might not know about Neanderthals\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"20 things you might not know about Neanderthals\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>1.\u00a0You\u2019re pretty much a Neanderthal. While it\u2019s been more than 5 million years since we parted ways with chimps, it has been only 400,000 since human and Neanderthal lineages split.2.\u00a0If you\u2019re Asian or Caucasian, your ancestors interbred with Neanderthals as recently as 37,000 years ago, when they crossed paths in Europe.3.\u00a0And that sex had benefits. Inherited Neanderthal genes come in alleles that help fight off nasty viruses such as Epstein-Barr \u2014 associated with several kinds of cancer, says Stanford University immunologist Laurent Abi-Rached.4.\u00a0If you want to know how much Neanderthal DNA you carry, just swab your cheek and send it to the National Geographic Society\u2019s Genographic Project. 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