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From: Sasson Margaliot <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] 4 percent Neanderthal?
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 22:37:56 +0200
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I assumed it would be understood as "in isolation from other modern humans".




On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Stephen Forrest
<>wrote:

> Not to put too fine a point on it, I will suggest that you meant to say
> "spent long time in solution.from *other* modern humans."
>
> On 6 February 2011 14:12, Sasson Margaliot <
> >wrote:
>
> > At the moment nothing at all is "traceable to Neanderthals". There are
> only
> > some brave proposals at earliest stage of evaluation.
> >
> > There is some genetic material missing an Africans, and it is said to be
> > "4%" (of something).
> >
> > Some genetic material is naturally missing in Africans because they have
> > spent long time in isolation from the modern humans.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Ken Nordtvedt <
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > "shared" and "traceable [back] to" are not the same things.
> > >
> > > chimps don't get their genome material from people, and people don't
> get
> > > their genome material from chimps. The canonical allegation of the
> field
> > > is
> > > that both obtain their genome material from a common ancestor of about
> 6
> > > million years ago, and its forms today in the two species is very
> similar
> > > in
> > > spite of the elapsed time of separate development.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Sasson Margaliot" <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 11:23 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [DNA] 4 percent Neanderthal?
> > >
> > >
> > > > And also 99% shared with chimps, altogether 103% of genome
> > > > non-modern-human...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Vincent Vizachero
> > > > <>wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> I'd say they meant something like this: "non-Africans have, on
> > > >> average, about four percent of their genome traceable to
> > Neanderthals."
> > > >>
> > > >> VV
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> On Feb 6, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Ken Nordtvedt wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > Anybody feel they know what the investigators meant?
> > > >>
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