Neo Mujico
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
ooli@lemmy.world to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

Neanderthals didn't truly go extinct, but were rather absorbed into the modern human population, DNA study suggests

www.livescience.com

external-link
message-square
20
fedilink
1
external-link

Neanderthals didn't truly go extinct, but were rather absorbed into the modern human population, DNA study suggests

www.livescience.com

ooli@lemmy.world to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago
message-square
20
fedilink
Modern human DNA may have made up a surprisingly large amount of the Neanderthal genome, a new study finds.
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    I know a few

  • Omega_Man@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    How were we able to procreate with a different species? Are there other instances of this in nature?

    I thought mating two species created sterile offspring (mules).

    • mineralfellow@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      Simply put, it’s not that simple.

    • MehBlah@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      That just depends on how the chromosomes match A mule is sterile only because it has 63 chromosomes. A horse has 64 and donkey has 62. .

      https://www.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/articles/2007/ask225/

      Its amazing what you learn for a school paper decades that sticks with you.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      Well, this newfound knowledge could have us decide that Neanderthals were not a different species, actually.

    • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      There are examples of 2 distinct species (with different chromosome count) creating (sometimes) fertile offspring: https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/when-hybrids-are-fertile-3/

      But genetically the neanderthalers were far less different from us than those examples. Apparently all modern humans share 99.9% of DNA and neanderthalers shared 99.7% of that. https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/are-neanderthals-and-homo-sapiens-the-same-species

      So the no viable offspring rule might not be that good for differentiating species, but that also doesn’t mean that neanderthalers and us were not the same species. The more I read on it, the more I think that we were. Apparently we interbred quite a lot over the millennia.

      • Omega_Man@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        1 year ago

        Is there any way to tell if certain gender-pairs were more common in interspecies mating between sapiens and neanderthals? For example, are we able to tell if the male partner was more or less likely to be sapien or neanderthal?

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I definitely know someone who is descended from a neanderthal.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      Most likely your mother

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        1 year ago

        Oh, gottem!

        • Akasazh@feddit.nl
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          1 year ago

          No it is, in fact, very likely that his mother has some neanderthal dna. Most of us do

          • Lemminary@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            11 months ago

            Shut up, nerd. Let us settle this the way our ancestors intended.

    • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      Marjorie Taylor Greene?

  • Glowstick@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    iirc this has been known for a while. We had sex with them so much that they stopped existing as a separate species.

    • qprimed@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      yes, and the article mentions it.

      if you are on the fence about reading - its a medium length, layman accessible, enjoyable read.

    • EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      Garrison would be proud. We truly fucked them to death.

  • NegativeNull@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    There’s a fantastic youtube channel by Stephan Milo that does nothing but explore the origins of “humans” (in the very broad sense).

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ9jWH_8tJ-Nmaj8dSQdEYA

  • TomMasz@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’ve got a bit of Neanderthal DNA, and a lot of folks of Eastern European descent do as well. My ancestors were swingers, I guess.

  • Subverb@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    We call them MAGA now.

    • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      In an archaeology sub. Really. This is exactly why the US is so divided and why violence is your most likely outcome. Grow a personality and stop dragging politics into everything.

Archaeology@mander.xyz

archaeology@mander.xyz

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !archaeology@mander.xyz

Welcome to c/Archaeology @ Mander.xyz!

Shovelbums welcome. 🗿


Notice Board

This is a work in progress, please don’t mind the mess.

  • 2023-06-15: We are collecting resources for the sidebar!
  • 2023-06-13: We are looking for mods. Send a dm to @fossilesque@mander.xyz if interested!

About

Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more…

Rules

  1. Don’t throw mud. Be kind and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. No pseudoscience/pseudoarchaeology.



Links

Archaeology 101:

  • Historic England’s Guides for the Archaeological Sciences

Get Involved:

  • AIA Societies (USA)
  • Society for Black Archaeologists

University and Field Work:

  • Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities Bulletin
  • University Archaeology (UK)
  • Black Trowel Collective Microgrants for Students

Jobs and Career:

  • Ways into Archaeology
  • Profiling the Profession
  • Shovelbums

Professional Organisations:

  • Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (UK)
  • BAJR (UK)
  • Association for Environmental Archaeology
  • Archaeology Scotland
  • Historic England

FOSS Tools:

  • Diamond Open Access in Archaeology
  • Tools for Quantitative Archaeology – in R
  • Open Archaeo: A list of open source archaeological tools and software.
  • The Open Digital Archaeology Textbook

Datasets:

  • Dutch archaeological repository (Archis III)
  • Archaeology Data Service (UK)

Fun:

  • Time Team from the BBC

Other Resources:

  • List of Archaeological Academic Journals
  • Archaeologists of Mastodon Listing
  • Academics on Mastodon



Similar Communities

  • !openscience@lemmy.ml

Sister Communities

Science and Research

  • !scicomm@mander.xyz

Biology and Life Sciences

  • !anthropology@mander.xyz
  • !biodiversity@mander.xyz
  • !palaeoecology@mander.xyz
  • !palaeontology@mander.xyz

Plants & Gardening

  • !balconygardening@slrpnk.net
  • !gardening@mander.xyz
  • !houseplants@mander.xyz
  • !plantid@mander.xyz

Physical Sciences

  • !earthscience@mander.xyz
  • !geography@mander.xyz
  • !geospatial@mander.xyz
  • !soilscience@slrpnk.net

Humanities and Social Sciences

  • !archaeology@mander.xyz
  • !folklore@mander.xyz
  • !history@mander.xyz
  • !old_maps@mander.xyz

Memes

  • !bushrat_confidential@slrpnk.net
  • !science_memes@mander.xyz

Find us on Reddit

  • r/enviro_archaeology
  • r/geoarchaeology

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1 user / day
  • 2 users / week
  • 12 users / month
  • 49 users / 6 months
  • 0 local subscribers
  • 3.21K subscribers
  • 322 Posts
  • 245 Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • fossilesque@mander.xyz
  • Recreational Placebos@midwest.social
  • SciBot@mander.xyz
  • Flying Squid@mander.xyz
  • BE: 0.19.8
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org