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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A partial skull retrieved from a cave in northern Israel is shedding light on a pivotal juncture in early human history when our species was trekking out of Africa to populate other parts of the world and encountered our close cousins the Neanderthals.

Scientists said on Wednesday the upper part of the skull, the domed portion without the face or jaws, was unearthed in Manot Cave in Israel's Western Galilee. Scientific dating techniques determined the skull was about 55,000 years old.

The researchers said characteristics of the skull, dating from a time period when members of our species were thought to have been marching out of Africa, suggest the individual was closely related to the first Homo sapiens populations that later colonized Europe.

They also said the skull provides the first evidence that Homo sapiens inhabited that region at the same time as Neanderthals, our closest extinct human relative.



..."The co-existence of these two populations in a confined geographic region at the same time that genetic models predict interbreeding promotes the notion that interbreeding may have occurred in the Levant region," Hershkovitz said.


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 01/28/2015 03:27 PM
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No wonder Lilith wandered away, she must have gotten a "look" at a Neanderthal.



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 01/29/2015 11:43 AM
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genetic models predict interbreeding promotes the notion that interbreeding may have occurred


I guess what happened in the ice age, didn't stay in the ice age. Talk about 'hogging'

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Explains my perma-sweater
 01/29/2015 12:46 PM
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Explains my perma-sweater


that and the Fred Flintstone feet, you'll set for the next ice age!

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 01/31/2015 05:59 AM
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dingpatch

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Neanderthals did gentiles?

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 01/31/2015 07:45 AM
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Taiwan Jaw Bone Connected to the Origins of Humanity, May Reveal Entirely New Prehistoric Species.

The first ancient human fossil found in Taiwan may indicate the presence of an unknown archaic species of humans who lived in Asia during the Pleistocene era, possibly hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans arrived.

- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net...rigins-humanity-020183

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We can see Neanderthals are still alive and well today.... Look toward this administration and anyone who supports it.
Those islamic nut jobs are in the same category.
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Very interesting read, thanks WG.

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I think we are hybrids of the two species.

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Originally posted by: johnnyboy

I think we are hybrids of the two species.


I do too.

The giant gene that pops up on occasion, (see Shaq) has to come from somewhere?



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I don't think that gene be would be from neanderthal, weren't they shorter and stockier that h. sapiens?

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