Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Ancient people had sex with Neanderthals

Scientists do not exclude the possibility that contemporary people, which lived in the epoch, when still remained the tribes of neandertal'tsev, entered with them into the sexual relations. At this conclusion the researchers from the Washington university in San- Louis, who studied 30 000- summer petrified remains in one of the caves in the territory of Rumania, arrived.

They found that the bones had characteristic features and early person and Neanderthal man, and they assumed that these two types of human beings crossed themselves between themselves.

The group of scientists headed by professor trinkaus indicates several anatomical special features of the "Rumanian" bones, which appear more primitively for homo sapience, but bear features characteristic for neandertal'tsev.

They include large "occipital knot", convexity on the back side of skull, and also other special features, such, as the more low- planted jaw and blade.

"these data strengthen hypothesis about" to mosaic nature "early contemporary Europeans and to the complex dynamics of human reproductive special features in the period, when contemporary people settled on Europe, moving to the West", is said in the article professor trinkausa, published in the "notes of the National Academy of Sciences" (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).

If the discovery scientists is confirmed, this will be present revolution in our understanding about the evolution of man. Since, according to new hypothesis, the contemporary person did not arrive for the change to Neanderthal man, but to this day contains his blood.

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