Neanderthal DNA suggests humans rarely, if ever, interbred

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To add to the spate of neanderthal topics...

http://tinyurl.com/y8wukd

Neanderthals shared %99.95 percent of our DNA, according to the article. The article also called the Neanderthal in question a "man". Is that typical in the media now? Chimpanzees share 95% of human DNA. Should they be called men and women too?

By 'man' I they probably don't mean anything more than 'male'.

Humans can't interbreed with other hominoids.

"neandertals rarely breed with humans...",sounds a lot like aspies,according to many of the males
on this forum.

I know I read a similar article, and it made the point that humans from the same period as neanderthals shared about as much DNA in common with modern humans, as did modern humans and neandorthals (so it's not quite comparable.) I'll dig it up when I'm back home.

Uhh, the last non-human hominid died about 28 thousand years ago, so I'm not sure where you got your data. That's if you're saying neanderthals can't be considered human.

Here's an interesting article about how neanderthals lived their day to day lives:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba51/ba51feat.html

"Despite the physical toughness of their lives, it appears that Neanderthals had a strong sense of community - they cared for members of the group who were injured or infirm. Recent study of the tissues of the original Neanderthal's forearm, for example, shows that it had broken and remained unusable for decades, much reducing his ability to contribute to society. At Shanidar cave in Iraq, one male had a crushed right leg, ankle and foot, a blow to the skull that had probably blinded him in one eye and a right arm that was severed above the elbow. His injuries had healed; he remained part of the group."

If that ain't human, I don't know what is.


I'm trying to imagine a scenario where two groups of humans could live in the same place for thousands of years and there were no instances of people from the two groups having sex.

I'm sorry I forgot about this.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/11 ... index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6099422.stm

Not the same article as I'd mentioned, but they do support the interbreeding theory.