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Neanderthals "Had Sex" With Modern Man

According to Professor Svante Paabo, director of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Neanderthals and modern humans had sex across the species barrier. The professor has been using DNA retrieved from fossils to piece together the entire Neanderthal genome, and plans on publishing his findings soon. He recently told a conference that he was sure the two species had had sex, but still had questions as to how "productive" the relations had been. "What I'm really interested in is, did we have children back then and did those children contribute to our variation today?" he said. "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." What remains a mystery is what Paleolithic brewery provided the catalyst for these stone age hook-ups.

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  1. Tough break for white people by tjstork · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We're part neanderthal? Kinda hard to convince the world we are the master race when we alone are half breeds with a non-verbal dumbass species...shit... we're the INFERIOR race!!!

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  2. Re:Scientific? by cayenne8 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    "Personal opinion? Even nowadays most modern men will hump anything with a viable opening."

    Hey, it is easy to believe, I mean you see this practice today...there are plenty of men out there that can look at another guy's sweaty, hairy asshole and go "I am in LOOOOOVE, and gotta have me some of that..."

    Yep, many man will fuck most anything that doesn't move faster than them......

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