I came across the following story in the Sunday Times yesterday - October 24, 2009 - under the titilating headline; "Neanderthals ‘had sex’ with modern man". Given that headline, how could you not read the story that followed, even if you knew in advance there were no photos?
"Professor Svante Paabo, director of genetics at the renowned Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, will shortly publish his analysis of the entire Neanderthal genome, using DNA retrieved from fossils...
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"Modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa about 40,000 years ago to find Neanderthals already living there. The two species then co-existed for 10,000-12,000 years before Neanderthals died out...
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"Paabo recently told a conference at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory near New York that he was now sure the two species had had sex — but a question remained about how "productive" it had been...I’m sure that they had sex, but did it give offspring that contributed to us? We will be able to answer quite rigorously with the new [Neanderthal genome] sequence."
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"Such an answer might ease the controversy over recent contradictory discoveries regarding Neanderthals. Some fossils seem to have both modern human and Neanderthal features, suggesting that the two species interbred. Yet DNA scans have shown that Neanderthal genes were very different from those of modern man..."
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Given the above...
THE STRONGEST PROOF THAT HUMANS AND NEANDERTHALS INTERBRED IS...
A) Steve Phillips at ESPN.
B) Brooke Hundley at ESPN
C) The jocks at ESPN
D) The exsistance of ESPN
E) The exsistance of ESPN 2
F) If a modern man can get arrested for having sex with cows, why wouldn't we screw a Neanderthal broad?
G) Admit it, women - you all have at least one Neanderthal in your past.
H) Norman Mailer.
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