Traces of a supernatural intimate connection from the distant past are found in the DNA of a modern person
NATURAL BLOOD
The past is changing for the umpteenth time. There was a time when Neanderthals were considered our direct ancestors. There was no doubt that it was from them that the Cro-Magnons originated - modern people. But then it turned out: they are not related to us. Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons did not even sit next to each other on the evolutionary tree. Figuratively speaking. And the similarities in them are no more than, for example, in monkeys and chimpanzees.
Back in 1997, the renowned scientist Professor Svent Pebo of the Max Planck Institute for Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) convincingly proved that Neanderthals are a separate species of intelligent beings. And they are genetically so different from Cro-Magnons that they cannot be their ancestors. If you compare DNA, the difference will be found in 202 "letters".
However, both of them have been neighbors on the planet for a long time. And some even lived nearby - in Europe, in some places in Asia. They even wandered into Siberia.
“Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals did not communicate,” Pebo said then. - And they didn't have sex. Due to an insurmountable genetic difference.
By the way, recently on the Kultura TV channel a multi-part popular science film about human evolution was shown. In one of the scenes, a Neanderthal was inflamed with a passion for a Cro-Magnon woman. But she ran away with a swift deer. Behind the scenes, they explained: there would be no sense even if the Neanderthal caught up with her. Like, they are different.
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And the other day it turned out: the filmmakers used outdated data. And they were mistaken about sex between representatives of different biological species. Like all anthropologists.
Perversions on the Evolutionary Ladder
By modern standards, Neanderthals were not beautiful. The faces were rough, with large brow ridges, with powerful jaws. The men were stocky and short - about 165 centimeters each. The women barely reached 155 centimeters.
For some mysterious reason, they all became extinct about 30 thousand years ago. They gave way to the Cro-Magnons. But before that, about 10 - 20 thousand years coexisted.
"Neanderthals did not disappear without a trace" - such a sensational statement was made at the annual conference of the American Association of Anthropologists, which was held in Albuquerque in mid-April.
“We all have a bit of Neanderthal in each of us,” said geneticist Jeffrey Long of the University of New Mexico, presenting the results of recent research.
Together with his colleagues, the scientist analyzed the genetic material of almost 2,000 people, taken from representatives of 99 populations from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and the Americas. I compared it with the "Neanderthal" by 614 markers - they are as informative as fingerprints.
As a result, anthropologists drew an evolutionary tree that corresponded to the genetic picture. And the timing of its change. It was then that it was revealed: in the history of mankind there were at least two periods when Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons actively engaged in sex. About 60 thousand years ago, they practiced it in the Mediterranean region. And then - somewhere in Western Asia 45 thousand years ago. And from these perversions offspring appeared.
“We didn't expect to see this,” Long admitted.
DID YOU AGREE ONLY TWICE?
American scientists did not find traces of "incest" only in the DNA of the indigenous people of Africa. From which they concluded: common children among Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals began to be born after the ancestors of people left the Black Continent and began to settle around the world. But the rest of the world's population has clear traces of prehistoric adultery.
According to Long, the descendants of the first interspecific crosses settled in Europe, Asia and North America. And those who appeared after sexual intercourse, which took place 45 thousand years ago, somehow ended up in Oceania.
About a year ago, Professor Pebo, who had previously denied our various intelligent ancestors in joint intimate joys, changed his mind. Although he found burials in which they - different - lay side by side. Deciphering the genome of a Neanderthal, he studied more than a billion of its fragments. And he spoke no longer about differences, but about similarities. Including with modern people.
“I'm pretty sure Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons had sex by now,” Pebo says. “But I doubt whether they produced offspring capable of further reproduction. After all, as a rule, hybrids are sterile.
It turns out that the Americans dispelled the professor's doubts. But he, too, most likely found some confirmation that the hybrids continued their genus. And they brought genes to modern generations. Only from this can we conclude about the sex of intelligent beings of different types.
Pebo promised to publish the exact results of his research in the near future. Then it will become finally clear about the cave sex. And were there really two "scabrous" periods? Or did sex happen only twice ?! Even if it is effective.
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Children of wild love
Anthropology professor Erik Trinkaus from Washington University in Missouri recreated the appearance from the remains that belonged to a man who lived about 40 thousand years ago in Romania. And he found in him both the features of a Cro-Magnon and a Neanderthal. That is, a probable hybrid.
Similar work was announced at the conference by Theodore Schurr, a molecular anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He found hybrid traits in the remains of a man who lived 20 thousand years ago in Australia.
And if hybrids were obtained, then there was sex. Unfortunately, there is almost no chance of finding out who was more interested in whom - Cro-Magnon Neanderthals or vice versa. One hope: somewhere there is a wall painting that will give the answer.
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Neanderthals awarded Cro-Magnons with lice
At the same conference in Albuquerque, it was announced that the wardrobe was over 190 thousand years old. At such a long time, she became an independent species, separating from the head lice. And this happened, according to scientists, after people had clothes. And the wardrobe variety found a cozy refuge in the folds of skins.
Previously, it was believed that the separation of the species of these parasites occurred 70 thousand years ago. Accordingly, the clothes started up at the same time. But, it turns out, it is possible that much earlier.
Scientists believe that Neanderthals were the first to sew skins. Therefore, they also bred body lice. And later they were awarded the Cro-Magnons. Maybe even in moments of intimacy.