Soon, announcement whether Neanderthal had HACNS1 #167 Rockthrowing theory
Archimedes Plutonium
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http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:KWn2qOK1BqAJ:www.gis.a-star.edu.sg/internet/site/article_data/sufian_3/(Y)%2520HACNS1%2520NewScientist.doc+hacns1+neanderthal&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Changes in body shape due to DNA sequences like HACNS1 might also be
easier to find in our extinct ancestors, says James Sikela, an
evolutionary biologist at the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center in Aurora. You would be able to pick up such shifts in the
fossil record much more easily than cognitive functions that leave no
fossil remains, he says.
With Neanderthals –- who diverged from humans 600,000 years ago – we
will soon get that chance. A rough draft of the complete Neanderthal
genome should be available by year's end, says Ed Green, an
evolutionary geneticist at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany who is involved in that effort.
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Can someone please give us updates on that announcement of whether
Neanderthal DNA has the same or not, HACNS1.
Probably the very most important news in Anthropology
science. And it is Genetics along with Physics that is
the proof in Anthropology, where fossil bones are secondary.
Trouble with fossil bones is that there are as many theories as there
are opinions. But with genetics and physics, all those theory-opinions
get washed away or
thrown-away (thanks for the pun).
I am guessing that of the SCIENCE reported abstract
" 13 substitutions clustered in an 81–base pair module"
that only a fraction of those 13 are found in the Neanderthal DNA.
Anyone know when the annoucement is due?
P.S. Years ago, I thought that the Neanderthal extinction was of a
gradation worse in throwing from
Homo sapiens, and that in the genetic accounting of this gradation
would be a spectrum of missing code
on various genes. I did not anticipate that the Neanderthal gradation
may be on one single gene--
HACNS1.
Archimedes Plutonium
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Lee Olsen
<plutonium.archime...@gmail.com> wrote:
<Nothing worth repeating>
Nice catch John Hawks:
http://tinyurl.com/yebh2vw
"Fred Spoor is explaining about the inner ear and balance.
Smaller semicircular canals in Neandertals.
"The only logical conclusion is that Neanderthals were less
agile, and maybe didn't include as much running and jumping
in their general behavior."
John replies: "I have to say, this seems incredible to me:
we've just heard how Neandertals have to use asymmetrically
balanced force to thrust their spears, and they're sneaking
on tiptoe up to the back of elk in the forest, and they don't
need to balance?"
The stupidity of Spoor's logic is even worse than that.
Just exactly how do you dodge the antlers of an angry
elk after you do get close enough to it to thrust your
thrusting-only spear into a vital organ before the
Paleo-monster gores you to death?