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Modern Man Had Sex with Neanderthals

Posted May 7th by Carlin
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Update: I published this post last October and today it's all over the blogosphere: Neanderthals and homo sapiens mated and had offspring.  4% of our DNA is from neanderthals.  Talk about kinky sex.

A leading geneticist mapping out the neanderthal geonome claims he has proof that modern man had sex outside its species.   Professor Svante Paabo, director of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, recently told a conference at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York that he was now sure the two species had sex but he was unclear if the couplings had led to children.

"What I'm really interested in is, did we have children back then and did those children contribute to our variation today?" Paabo told the Times. "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."

I think we can put this in the "rape" category.  Can't you see modern man outsmarting a neanderthal woman or a neanderthal man overpowering a modern woman? It has me thinking about whether we had sex with animals too.  If we did, it would be right there in our DNA (DNA doesn't lie).  God, the creationists would freak.  Imagine what was happening on Noah's Ark ;)

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Why not a neanderthal

Submitted by Passerby (not verified) on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 01:38.

Why not a neanderthal *woman* overpowering a modern man or a modern *woman* outsmarting a neanderthal man? How about a fully consensual fling? A change of track for once? A more sophisticated or brutish partner for a change? Roman Catholicism wasn't around to drill the old women victimization littany into everyone's heads. Womenfolk back then were likely even more emancipated than they are today. 'Blood Relations' by Chris Knight: Civilization might have been a female invention and females might have held all the trumps for a long while before patriarcalism and so on. Also, even though we and neanderthals were close enough to maybe produce offspring, other animals were probably way to different to leave any lasting testimony in the genomes of young ones. DNA would be as mute on that one as it could. But it would be a quite safe bet that our ancestors did allsorts of things with all sorts of lifeforms. Parents mustn't have been nearly as extrict as contemporary ones. Well, I guess, at least.

I whole heartedly agree

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Submitted by Carlin on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 13:42.

I whole heartedly agree 

"I'm going to be a naughty vampire god"

sex vs. procreation

Submitted by miconian (not verified) on Fri, 05/07/2010 - 15:14.

Although it's a geneticist who is saying that homo sapiens and neanderthals had sex, he's not saying that we have genetic evidence to that effect. Such evidence could only come from offspring, and we don't yet know for sure if there was any.

He says he's sure that the two species had sex, but he doesn't explain how he's sure... my inference is that he figures that, since they looked a lot like each other, were living in the same areas (at least sometimes), and had matching body parts, why wouldn't they?

sex vs. procreation

Submitted by miconian (not verified) on Fri, 05/07/2010 - 15:15.

Although it's a geneticist who is saying that homo sapiens and neanderthals had sex, he's not saying that we have genetic evidence to that effect. Such evidence could only come from offspring, and we don't yet know for sure if there was any.

He says he's sure that the two species had sex, but he doesn't explain how he's sure... my inference is that he figures that, since they looked a lot like each other, were living in the same areas (at least sometimes), and had matching body parts, why wouldn't they?

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