Comments on: What did red-haired Neanderthals look like?

By: Mathilda

Mathilda — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:22:12 +0000

Not the furred ape man of yester-year.

I would have gone with straight hair myself for a recon. Better at keeping the neck warm.

Jean M, some of the age estimates for red and light brown hair in humans are hugely old. Possibly we picked them up from the Levantine Neanderthals; maybe the European N ginger variant had some kind of undesriable effect in modern hybrids that got itself deselected. We don’t have N Mt or Y DNA either.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:37:35 +0000

New Scientist has recent article saying around 4% of genome of non-Africans is Neanderthal.

Gregory Cochran thinks that the Neanderthal genes might have helped Europeans and North Asians with cold adaption.

John Hawks has post about how Asians and Europeans have different Neanderthal genes — implying separate breeding with Neanderthals.

By: bedrijvengids

bedrijvengids — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:47:36 +0000

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By: GDI

GDI — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:34:44 +0000

Which means Europeans are separated on the evolutionary tree by about 400,000 years from Africans?

By: MSG

MSG — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:19:43 +0000

He’s no oil painting, but you wouldn’t call to have him arrested.

By: Jean M

Jean M — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:33:06 +0000

The interesting point is the Hsn mutation for red hair isn’t found in living humans so far as is known.

Precisely. Europeans did not inherit red hair from Neanderthals.

By: Dwight E. Howell

Dwight E. Howell — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:21:35 +0000

Some were red heads others were not! The interesting point is the Hsn mutation for red hair isn’t found in living humans so far as is known.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:02:39 +0000

2%? Interpretome told me I’m 8%…

By: don

don — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:36:35 +0000

So all non-african humans have neanderthal DNA; I always wondered why the agricultural revolution–necessary for beer drinkers–and ultimately the industrial revolution was a warm interglacial non african event. I guess the Neanderthals were not stupid, lumbering beasts of burden after all.

By: Michael Brady

Michael Brady — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:26:38 +0000

My eyes!!!

By: juan

juan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:13:48 +0000

So all non-Africans are 2% prop comic?

I guess this explains why black people never liked Gallagher.

By: Miley Cyrax

Miley Cyrax — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:52:25 +0000

Like the scientists in Jurassic Park (the novel) with their dinosaurs, we would have to make sure any hypothetical genetically reconstructed Neanderthals don’t succumb to sunburn. http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/carrot-top-rubdown

By: Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:50:56 +0000

I believe I speak for everyone here when I say, “Hmmmm.”