# Neandertal and modern humans Interbred **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 9, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neandertal-and-modern-humans-interbred/685744 "2014-04-09T19:10:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neandertal-and-modern-humans-interbred/685744/1 "2014-04-09T19:10:22Z")
From this link: > **[Humans and Neandertals interbred, new method confirms](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140408111228.htm)** > > Technical objections to the idea that Neandertals interbred with the ancestors of Eurasians have been overcome, thanks to a new genome analysis method. The technique can more confidently detect the genetic signatures of interbreeding than previous... “Technical objections to the idea that Neandertals interbred with the ancestors of Eurasians have been overcome, thanks to a genome analysis method described in the April 2014 issue of the journal Genetics. The technique can more confidently detect the genetic signatures of interbreeding than previous approaches and will be useful for evolutionary studies of other ancient or rare DNA samples.” This would certainly explain some people I’ve met over the years…😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neandertal-and-modern-humans-interbred/685744/2 "2014-04-09T19:12:53Z")
Pretty sure there’s already a recent thread on this. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neandertal-and-modern-humans-interbred/685744/3 "2014-04-09T19:33:14Z")
“But I breed with just ONE Neanderthal and they call me …” ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neandertal-and-modern-humans-interbred/685744/4 "2014-04-09T19:43:32Z")
I likes me some modern wimmins! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neandertal-and-modern-humans-interbred/685744/5 "2014-04-09T19:54:17Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > I likes me some modern wimmins! Hey, maybe it was the Neandertal men who were super sexy and got all the human women! Nerdy human sitting around with his camp fire and stuff when some Neandertal kicks sand in his face and makes off with his best girl. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neandertal-and-modern-humans-interbred/685744/6 "2014-04-09T20:26:23Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Hey, maybe it was the Neandertal men who were super sexy and got all the human women! Nerdy human sitting around with his camp fire and stuff when some Neandertal kicks sand in his face and makes off with his best girl. Only to be shot in the back with an arrow. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neandertal-and-modern-humans-interbred/685744/7 "2014-04-09T21:25:45Z")
So this jocks vs nerds thing has been around a lot longer than I thought… ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neandertal-and-modern-humans-interbred/685744/8 "2014-04-10T02:54:26Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Pretty sure there’s already a recent thread on this. > **[~20% of the Neandertal genome survives in modern, non-African humans](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=719423)** > > We’ve all heard that non-African humans have 1-3% Neandertal DNA, but some folks at UW Seattle have found that some 20% of the Neandertal genome can be found scattered around in moderns. They used a database of ~700 Europeans and East Asians and some... My thread was about a different article though. What’s new here is not that they interbred. I haven’t read the article yet, but from the abstract it looks like the authors have shown that the interbreeding occurred not just after separation of non-African humans from Africans, but actually in Eurasia. Their technique also works from sampling fewer genomes. As usual, the public-consumption news release is…poor. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neandertal-and-modern-humans-interbred/685744/9 "2014-04-10T10:16:54Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > “But I breed with just ONE Neanderthal and they call me …” “Can I buy a vowel, Vanna, an 'A”?"😃