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Neanderthal Ancestors May Be To Blame For Why You Can't Get a Tan (telegraph.co.uk)
turkeydance shares a report from The Telegraph: If you struggle to get a tan, consider yourself a night owl or are plagued with arthritis, then your Neanderthal ancestors could be to blame, a new genetic study has shown. Although Neanderthals are often portrayed in drawings as swarthy, in fact they arrived in Northern Europe thousands of years before modern humans, giving time for their skin to become paler as their bodies struggled to soak up enough sun. When they interbred with modern humans those pale genes were passed on. Likewise, genetic mutations which predispose people to arthritis also came from our Neanderthal ancestors, as did the propensity to be a night owl rather than a lark, as northern latitudes altered their body clocks. A raft of new papers published in the journals Science and the American Journal of Human Genetics has shed light on just how many traits we owe to our Neanderthal ancestors.
Scientists also now think that differences in hair color, mood and whether someone will smoke or have an eating disorder could all be related to inter-breeding, after comparing ancient DNA to 112,000 British people who took part in the UK Biobank study. The Biobank includes genetic data along with information on many traits related to physical appearance, diet, sun exposure, behavior, and disease and helps scientists pick apart which traits came from Neanderthals. Dr Janet Kelso, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Germany, said: "We can now show that it is skin tone, and the ease with which one tans, as well as hair color that are affected."
Scientists also now think that differences in hair color, mood and whether someone will smoke or have an eating disorder could all be related to inter-breeding, after comparing ancient DNA to 112,000 British people who took part in the UK Biobank study. The Biobank includes genetic data along with information on many traits related to physical appearance, diet, sun exposure, behavior, and disease and helps scientists pick apart which traits came from Neanderthals. Dr Janet Kelso, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Germany, said: "We can now show that it is skin tone, and the ease with which one tans, as well as hair color that are affected."
Interesting, if only we could read it (without jumping through hoops).
Probably done entirely with public money, but not for the public.
Thank you.
If you struggle to get a tan, consider yourself a night owl or are plagued with arthritis
Stop spying on me, NSA!
Ezekiel 23:20
The article indicates that early humans developed strategies to avoid interbreeding, recognizing that there were dangers associated with doing so. Although many people consider religion ridiculous now, it may have provided a survival advantage at one time, promoting an orderly society. It seems like the attempts to avoid interbreeding may have also conferred a survival advantage, and that trait may persist to this day as racism and avoiding diversity. It makes me wonder if racism, awful as it is, may have once provided a very real survival advantage to early humans.
What does it say about your ancestry if you're kind of orange? Asking for a friend, well not a friend, it's just that he's unlike most human beings and I'm a bit worried about his erratic behaviour. I think he might try to do something (even more) stupid.
> Neanderthal Ancestors May Be To Blame For Why You Can't Get a Tan
They are also blamed for the plight of manga girls:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/13/03/13/1247255/manga-girls-beware-extra-large-eyes-caused-neanderthals-demise
Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise
The more study results I see on /. the more I come under the opinion that studies aren't real science. Rather they're a means to prove a point using whatever means possible.
Bioinformatics and genetic data mining is absolutely at the forefront of computer science research today. Nothing is more appropriate as "geek news".
Black people are purebred and white people are impure? What does this mean for those in favor of racial cleansing?
Mine me some vaginas, I'm tired of this stupid shitty world.
Maybe I'll just go on killing spree.
This is nothing even close to /. material.
-jcr
Huh. I've been reading slashdot since the 90s and honestly thought this was interesting. Now, as for a lot of the other crap on here.... well, no.
jcr snorted:
This is nothing even close to /. material.
Oh really?
a. /. supposedly is "News for nerds."
b. I'm an unashamed nerd. I'm also a night owl, I burn, rather than tan, and I suffer from "moderate" osteoarthritis. And I'm of northern European extraction (Irish, Welsh, and Prussian to be precise). For all those reasons, this interests me.
I'll bet you a shiny, new quarter I'm not alone, either ...
Check out my novel.
That may be true, but you don't hear about many Neanderthal women getting into programming, so clearly we should be talking about the gender gap instead.
Though come to think of it, I'm not seeing any Neanderthal men either, so it must be a full blown racial issue!
that's Sin/Cos isn't it ?
I didn't know neanderthals had worked out trigonometry
You have to be African for that.
White people are a100% human. Black people are a 100% human as are all other groups of people. All people should be treated fairly and be given a chance to develop their talents. It is morally wrong to deny any person a decent life or a chance for a decent life because of notions of racial classifications. In same way it is wrong to deny either sex an equal chance. Even more importantly it is stupid.
2.5% Neanderthal, and about 80% European. I tan just fine.
Just do it like the Neanderthal-in-Chief and use Tan-in-Bottle.
Genetics isn't a nerdy science topic? The fuck are you smoking today and may I have some?
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
I beg to differ. Product of an interspecies breeding is always a fagget or some other pervert, or a child molester, or a retard.
I would disagree, but by offering yourself up as evidence you make your point quite well.
I don't understand the claim made by the headline. I don't know a single person that can't tan no matter their skin tone. I'm pretty dark and I still tan.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child
Take up the White Man’s burden
In patience to abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit
And work another’s gain
Take up the White Man’s burden—
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah slowly) to the light:
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
“Our loved Egyptian night?”
Take up the White Man’s burden-
Have done with childish days-
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
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So white people are monkey fuckers?
LOL. Glad to know that black is the real pure ;)
I bet you believe in the Tooth Fairy, too, don't you?
nah this isn't really 'bioinformatics.'.. it's a cleverly disguised anti-white SJW article.. (see! look! if you're white, you're inferior!)
It's posted by beauhd after all..
We're the real victims of cultural appropriation - we invented the wheel.
So, how does it feel to be a member of the Illuminati?
Since the summary suggests that the Neanderthals arrived to Europe "thousands of year" before the modern humans instead of being developed in here and nearby areas for a 500k years, in the accordance of /.-traditions I'm going to claim that it was exactly 6000 years ago. The summary is the perfectly cromulent /.-troll this time.
I keep searching /. pages like this one, and the *only* place I see the phrase "News for nerds" is in posts like yours.
Uh... why would you want to smoke something that makes you stupid and cantankerous?
"Neanderthal Ancestors May Be To Blame For Why You Can't Get a Tan"
I can tan just fine, it's feeling included I have problems with.
... and realize that a tan is nothing more and nothing less that visible evidence of UV damage correlated with an increased risk of malignant melanoma.
Skin cancer is no joke, and no fashion statement.
Kill yourself, stupid piece of shit. I don't want to breed with your shitty sand monkeys, or smelly hindu-chimps.
I got bad hair from my mom. I stink cuz of my grandpa. I have bunions cuz of my great-grandmothers mail man. I highly doubt anyhow that its only because of neaderthal's as almost any creature that can live a long time gets ware and tear.. as in arthritis.
-Arzaboa
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"Respect your Elders!" -- Grandpa.
Kill yourself, stupid piece of shit. I don't want to breed with your shitty sand monkeys, or smelly hindu-chimps.
I want to ...
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I see the hypersensitive right-wingers havenâ(TM)t yet found their safe space. Seriously dude, this article has nothing to do with your political bullshit.
AFAIK all modern humans are descendants of this interbreeding. So even if your skin is black you have Neanderthal genes.
Is foaming at the mouth required for KKK-members, or do you just think that it's cool?
yea, living in the gravelpits of flanders, hellgium probably the part where they collaborated most during the actual was (which was lost btw ... Hitler is not alive ,and actually without the other three he would have been like never anything but the corporal who could but that aside i often wonder)
why are these couch nazis so bent on beach vacations and getting a tan ? i mean whitepower and shit, right?
makes as much sense as the hackers-on-meth doing abortion clinics i mean do you think baby-hitler wouldnt have wanted abortions to keep eugenics on top ?
not that the leftists make any more sense
actually not that any -ist makes any sense to me, all i hear is ME ME ME, and you cant speak !
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?
It doesn't matter what color a person's skin is, "rich privilege" wins out. People who end up with money love to pretend that it's natural for them to have it.
Who the hell is that? Everyone I know that is rich knows it's not natural. They won the lottery of life. If they have kids it can all be gone in less than a year. Even if it's hundreds of millions. It's also very hard to keep it. Everyone wants to part you from your money.
Just as the poor are poor for a reason. There will always be poor. They can't handle money. If you work with them, that becomes clear fast. So stealing it from the rich doesn't help.
Not just KKK members. Antifa, democrats, etc. Anyone on the left. Any of the fascists. That was the whole joke in Charlottesville. We had the KKK and Antifa - both leftists, both democrats and they were fighting each other. Both are racists and they were complaining about old racists. For those of us on the right we're like - yea? Can't we just sit back and watch you bigots kill each other?
Neanderthals aren't white, they are asian/oriental/mongoloid. They originated in Asia, not Africa.
Do you want to have a fuck with "jcr", or you want to smoke the come after the fuck? Won't it make your papers wet and sticky and hard to light?
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
The /. tagline used to be "News for nerds, stuff that matters". It was dropped quite a few years ago though.
(snicker snicker)
Using the phrase "less evolved" reveals you to be an idiot. That's not how evolution works, nothing is less evolved because evolution isn't working towards some goal. The fact that white Europeans have Neanderthal dna as opposed to Asians with donisovan or African with just larger genetic diversity in general doesn't make any one geographic genetic group better or worse than any other except in specific instances, as in "one group is better able to resist malaria"