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[wierd]

Skull morphology of neanderthal specimens suggests a different "weighting" on how they processed sensory information, and thus there would be biological disposition to very different interpretation of the same sensory sources.

[scriver]

Some opinions are more genetic then others, like for example "babies are cute", "I like breathing", or "dubstep is a secret project by rogue CIA agents to subconsciously influence kids think more favourably of George W Bush".

[hops]

The neanderthals are known for their disdain of breathing.

It is unclear how they died out.

[scriver]

I wish I could give you a +1 cinder

[Imic]

For a while in Europe, there were two seperate species of Human living side by side. That’s some Tolkien shit there.

[scriver]

We should clone Neanderthals, impregnate them, and send them back in time to become our own ancestors

[MrRoboto75]

"I like breathing"

[Citation Needed]

[TD1]

We should clone Neanderthals, impregnate them, and send them back in time to become our own ancestors

Your plan sounds suspiciously like a thinly veiled attempt to create your own sex slaves.

[scriver]

"I like breathing"

[Citation Needed]

Why don't you hold your breath while I get my source: P

We should clone Neanderthals, impregnate them, and send them back in time to become our own ancestors

Your plan sounds suspiciously like a thinly veiled attempt to create your own sex slaves.

Totally not! I would never fuck a relative.

[Ziusudra]

We should clone Neanderthals, impregnate them, and send them back in time to become our own ancestors

Your plan sounds suspiciously like a thinly veiled attempt to create your own sex slaves.

Totally not! I would never fuck a relative.

So you only do it with inanimate objects? Every living thing on the planet might very well have a common ancestor.

Oh, and: if we all have a common ancestor then our parents did and were however distant cousins - and half your DNA is from and one and the other half from the other - then half your DNA is cousin to the other half. So we are each our own cousin.

[Tack]

I’ll give some benefit of the doubt between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthalis, but i’d Love to see the common ancestor between bears and spinifex.

[GPeter]

Oh, and: if we all have a common ancestor then our parents did and were however distant cousins - and half your DNA is from and one and the other half from the other - then half your DNA is cousin to the other half. So we are each our own cousin.

Can you draw a family tree explaining this? I kinda tilted trying to understand...

[Reelya]

The rules for cousins are actually pretty interesting and can be extended to be more comprehensive.

A 1st cousin is a descendant of your parent's siblings, a 2nd cousin is a descendant of your parent's parent's siblings, a 3rd cousin is a descendant of your parent's parent's parent's siblings and so on. Actual siblings can quite reasonably be called "0th cousins" and this fits the pattern in a logical and mathematically satisfying way.

Also, there's a concept of "double cousins" where one pair of siblings marries another pair of siblings - they're double-cousins by the fact that they can trace cousin-hood from either their mother's side or father's side. If you extend the concept that siblings are 0th-cousins, then a full sibling is in fact a double-0th-cousin while a half-sibling is a single-0th-cousin. However ... since everyone traces back to common ancestors, everyone is really double-cousins by definition, but your cousin-level (as in 1st cousin, 2nd cousin, 3rd cousin and so forth) is different on your mother's side vs father's side. We just call them double-cousins when the cousin-level on both sides of the tree is the same.

How it works that you can be your own cousin is that if you go back far enough on your mother's side and father's side you share common ancestors, therefore by the rules you can work out what cousin-type you'd be to yourself if your were separate people. So you could be your own 17th-cousin by the rules as outlined, since there are multiple lines of inheritance that connect you with the same common ancestor.

[Kagus]

It's not even a matter of common ancestor; there's evidence suggesting that cro-magnon and neanderthals intermarried at various points during their parallel history. There are (theoretically) still a few people with bits and pieces of neanderthal DNA living in the modern world.