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Recently scientists said that humans actually have Neanderthal genes. How the theory of common ancestry explains this?
Branching, not straight lines. Do you understand that concept? Modern man and Neanderthal interbred, which makes sense. Neanderthal and modern man have a common ancestor with the other great apes. We are one part of that great ape family. This has been explained many times in this thread.
Recently scientists said that humans actually have Neanderthal genes. How the theory of common ancestry explains this?
It totally explains it. One wave of humanoids were the Neanderthal in Eurasia. A second wave much later was modern humans. There was some interbreeding between the two groups hence some Neanderthal genes in many modern humans, at least those not from Africa. Other groups of humans interbreed with Denisovans which are a fairly recently discovered species.
It would be like you and a sixth cousin had a child, you would have a common ancestor and your child would have genes from both you and your cousin. Or breeding a dog and a wolf or a bull and a bison.
Yeah, well. The "truth" in the Adam/Eve/Garden story goes something like this:
If you know what's good for you, you all will stay here in this equatorial zone where you don't have to wear clothes and you can eat fruits and berries and stuff. You will just have to put up the damned snakes.
That is not how the historic document has it. They were not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God never mentioned snakes.
If those are the ones who came and turned "brown skinned Europeans" into "white" race, I am Chinese. Which I am back to the bone white boy.
Did you read the article? It would explain it to you.
Born, bred and from Nordic stock going back centuries (although we can't be sure the odd Hun may be involved in the family tree somewhere, probably unwillingly by the object of his advances), wed to science, and not a prejudicial bone in my body except the willfully ignorant. You're not one of the later, are you?
Recently scientists said that humans actually have Neanderthal genes. How the theory of common ancestry explains this?
Bananas have about 50% of DNA humans have too. So who had sex with those bananas?
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