Max Planck
Institute scientists predicted when Neandertals and Europeans now shared
ancestors the last time. They did that to find out why Neanderthals are related
a lot to people outside of Africa. The
research which they did shows a “historical context for the interbreeding”. It
tells us that it happened when us humans brought Upper Paleolithic knowledge
found Neanderthals while they were going out of Africa.
“When the Neanderthal
genome was sequenced in 2010” it showed that citizens which aren’t in Africa, have a little bit more genetic similarities with
Neanderthals. The fact that humans mixed with Neanderthals when they went out
of Africa explains this thought.
Dr. Sriram
Sankararaman calculated the extent of DNA parts in the genomes of the
Europeans, which are very alike to Neanderthals. “Since recombination between
chromosomes when egg and sperm cells are formed reduces the size of such pieces
in each generation” the Neanderthal pieces will become smaller the longer they
spend in the genomes of now living people.
The team came to a
conclsion, they think that humans and Neanderthals traded genes at about 37000
to 86000 years ago, this shows that Neanderthals had kids with the ancestor of
now living people out of Africa
I choose this
event because it stood out to me. I like anything that has to do with history,
ancestor etc. I quoted some parts because I really liked how they said the
statement. I would really like to see one of my ancestors, how they look like
compared to me ad my family.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121004201046.htm
ScienceDaily (Oct. 4, 2012)
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