“Let’s do this.”
Song: If Artist: Islands.
Excerpt:
“If early man really did mate with Neanderthal man; modern man is a mix of bestial sex— If you ain’t sweet to me, i’ll desert you in a heartbeat.”
From a NYTimes Article entitled “Hybrids May Thrive Where Parent Species Fear to Tread”:
The first comparisons of small sections of Neanderthal DNA did not indicate any hybridization, and the lack of interbreeding became a widely accepted conclusion. That remained the case until this year, when a much greater portion of the Neanderthal genome was obtained by Svante Paabo and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. It now appears that 1 percent to 4 percent of the DNA sequence of Europeans and Asians, but not Africans, was contributed by Neanderthals mixing with Homo sapiens, perhaps in the Middle East 50,000 to 80,000 years ago. It is possible that some Neanderthal versions of genes enabled modern humans to adapt to new climates and habitats.
See, Islands knew it all along.
