• Common genes do not imply cross-species (human/hominid) breeding

    From panther2020@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 3 08:29:25 2024
    We share around half of our genes with the ordinary banana...

    That assuredly does not come from humans BREEDING with bananas... It
    most liikely comes from humans EATING bananas, pretty much forever, and probably throughout the universe and not just on this planet.

    Likewise, the first experience humans ever had with Neanderthals on
    Earth was watching friends and family members being killed and eaten by
    them, so that eating a Neanderthal that had been killed in some battle
    would have just been sending the Neanderthals a message in their own language...

    In both cases, what you seem to be talking about is bacterial insertian
    of genes.

    There is a claim that, because some humans have a certain small number
    of genes in common with Neanderthals, that humans and Neanderthals must
    have interbred. That amounts to thinking that a Neanderthal male
    could/would rape a woman and, rather than cooking and eating her
    afterwards as usual, somehow or other keep her alive long enough to bear
    a cross-species child, raise that child to reproductive age, and have
    him/her breed back into human populations without anybody catching on,
    i.e. the claim is ridiculous.

    In real life:

    Neanderthal females would kill that woman the first time her new owner
    left her alone for ten minutes.

    The woman wouldn't fare any better than the subjects of the commie
    attempts to breed humans and apes into super workers in the 1930s.

    Humans would notice the child was different (really different...)

    And humans would kill that child and everybody else like him as part of
    the same program which killed out the Neanderthal. They would not need
    DNA tests to determine who to kill for that sort of reason, it would be exceedingly obvious.

    https://youtu.be/mZbmywzGAVs

    In other words, it would be a miracle for something like that to ever
    have happened once while the claims from Paabo et. al. require it to
    have been going on all the time. That is, for human/hominid
    cross-breeding to have left detectable traces in the DNA of modern
    humans, it would have to have been entirely common.

    One zero-probability event in the history of the universe? Maybe, but
    not an infinite series of them, i.e. not something that stands
    everything we know about probability on its head.

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  • From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 3 16:14:45 2024
    On 2024-04-03 13:29:25 +0000, panther2020 said:

    We share around half of our genes with the ordinary banana...

    That assuredly does not come from humans BREEDING with bananas... It
    most liikely comes from humans EATING bananas, pretty much forever, and probably throughout the universe and not just on this planet.

    Likewise, the first experience humans ever had with Neanderthals on
    Earth was watching friends and family members being killed and eaten by
    them, so that eating a Neanderthal that had been killed in some battle
    would have just been sending the Neanderthals a message in their own language...

    In both cases, what you seem to be talking about is bacterial insertian
    of genes.

    There is a claim that, because some humans have a certain small number
    of genes in common with Neanderthals, that humans and Neanderthals must
    have interbred. That amounts to thinking that a Neanderthal male
    could/would rape a woman and, rather than cooking and eating her
    afterwards as usual, somehow or other keep her alive long enough to
    bear a cross-species child, raise that child to reproductive age, and
    have him/her breed back into human populations without anybody catching
    on, i.e. the claim is ridiculous.

    In real life:

    Neanderthal females would kill that woman the first time her new owner
    left her alone for ten minutes.

    The woman wouldn't fare any better than the subjects of the commie
    attempts to breed humans and apes into super workers in the 1930s.

    Humans would notice the child was different (really different...)

    And humans would kill that child and everybody else like him as part of
    the same program which killed out the Neanderthal. They would not need
    DNA tests to determine who to kill for that sort of reason, it would be exceedingly obvious.

    https://youtu.be/mZbmywzGAVs

    In other words, it would be a miracle for something like that to ever
    have happened once while the claims from Paabo et. al. require it to
    have been going on all the time. That is, for human/hominid
    cross-breeding to have left detectable traces in the DNA of modern
    humans, it would have to have been entirely common.

    One zero-probability event in the history of the universe? Maybe, but
    not an infinite series of them, i.e. not something that stands
    everything we know about probability on its head.

    Severe case of Dunning-Kruger here. So much speculation on so little
    knowledge. I leave it to others with more energy (Mark?) to take it
    apart.

    --
    athel cb : Biochemical Evolution, Garland Science, 2016

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  • From *Hemidactylus*@21:1/5 to panther2020@vivaldi.net on Wed Apr 3 14:40:14 2024
    panther2020 <panther2020@vivaldi.net> wrote:
    We share around half of our genes with the ordinary banana...

    That assuredly does not come from humans BREEDING with bananas... It
    most liikely comes from humans EATING bananas, pretty much forever, and probably throughout the universe and not just on this planet.

    Likewise, the first experience humans ever had with Neanderthals on
    Earth was watching friends and family members being killed and eaten by
    them, so that eating a Neanderthal that had been killed in some battle
    would have just been sending the Neanderthals a message in their own language...

    In both cases, what you seem to be talking about is bacterial insertian
    of genes.

    There is a claim that, because some humans have a certain small number
    of genes in common with Neanderthals, that humans and Neanderthals must
    have interbred. That amounts to thinking that a Neanderthal male
    could/would rape a woman and, rather than cooking and eating her
    afterwards as usual, somehow or other keep her alive long enough to bear
    a cross-species child, raise that child to reproductive age, and have
    him/her breed back into human populations without anybody catching on,
    i.e. the claim is ridiculous.

    In real life:

    Neanderthal females would kill that woman the first time her new owner
    left her alone for ten minutes.

    The woman wouldn't fare any better than the subjects of the commie
    attempts to breed humans and apes into super workers in the 1930s.

    Humans would notice the child was different (really different...)

    And humans would kill that child and everybody else like him as part of
    the same program which killed out the Neanderthal. They would not need
    DNA tests to determine who to kill for that sort of reason, it would be exceedingly obvious.

    https://youtu.be/mZbmywzGAVs

    In other words, it would be a miracle for something like that to ever
    have happened once while the claims from Paabo et. al. require it to
    have been going on all the time. That is, for human/hominid
    cross-breeding to have left detectable traces in the DNA of modern
    humans, it would have to have been entirely common.

    One zero-probability event in the history of the universe? Maybe, but
    not an infinite series of them, i.e. not something that stands
    everything we know about probability on its head.

    Is your apparent genetic relatedness to your parents of mutual cannibalism and/or bacterial insertion of their genes into you?

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  • From Ernest Major@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 3 17:07:29 2024
    On 03/04/2024 14:29, panther2020 wrote:
    We share around half of our genes with the ordinary banana...

    That assuredly does not come from humans BREEDING with bananas...  It
    most liikely comes from humans EATING bananas, pretty much forever, and probably throughout the universe and not just on  this planet.

    The genetic commonalities between humans and bananas mostly (possibly completely) arise from retention with modification from their common
    ancestor - an early eukaryote. You'll find that the commonalities
    between humans and bananas are almost identical to those between other
    mammals and bananas. You could try to explain this as a result of
    alimentation for great apes (but you would have to explain why it's the
    same bits of the banana genome got transferred in each instance), or
    change your story to it coming from early apes, rather than humans,
    eating bananas, but you'd still have to explain how banana DNA got into
    New World monkeys (no bananas in South America), cats(obligate
    carnivores) and dolphins (no bananas in the sea).

    Likewise, the first experience humans ever had with Neanderthals on
    Earth was watching friends and family members being killed and eaten by
    them, so that eating a Neanderthal that had been killed in some battle
    would have just been sending the Neanderthals a message in their own language...

    Denny Vendramini's views are not accepted by the great majority of anthropologists and geneticists. You can't use his model as an axiom and
    make a convincing argument.


    In both cases, what you seem to be talking about is bacterial insertian
    of genes.

    We have a body of knowledge about how horizontal transfer of genes
    occurs, and about how to recognise occurrences. Alimentation is not a
    common means of gene transfer, except in parasitic plants, whose tissues
    are in intimate contact with their hosts at a subcellular level. If you
    think about it, if alimentation was a regular cause of horizontal
    transfer of genes to the degree that you postulate, the nested hierarchy
    of the genome would be badly messed up - fish genes turning up in
    otters, seals and dolphins, but not in dogs and hippopotami, wheat and
    rice genes turning up in humans, but not in chimpanzees, and termite
    genes turning up in anteaters, echidnas and pangolins, but not
    armadillos and platypuses.

    Even if it did occur, what would be transferred would be small sections
    of the genome, that escaped digestion, passed into the bloodstream, and
    somehow got incorporated into ova or spermatozoa. In contrast with interbreeding neandertal genetic material enters the human gene pool in chromosome sized chunks, and gets broken up over time through the
    process of recombination. We can tell how recent the interbreeding was
    by the size of the remaining chunks of neandertal DNA. We have an
    ancient Homo sapiens specimen with about 1/16th neandertal ancestry,
    with chunks of neandertal DNA of a size that implies that the
    interbreeding was only a few generations back.


    There is a claim that, because some humans have a certain small number
    of genes in common with Neanderthals, that humans and Neanderthals must
    have interbred. That amounts to thinking that a Neanderthal male
    could/would rape a woman and, rather than cooking and eating her
    afterwards as usual, somehow or other keep her alive long enough to bear
    a cross-species child, raise that child to reproductive age, and have
    him/her breed back into human populations without anybody catching on,
    i.e. the claim is ridiculous.

    In real life:

    Neanderthal females would kill that woman the first time her new owner
    left her alone for ten minutes.

    The woman wouldn't fare any better than the subjects of the commie
    attempts to breed humans and apes into super workers in the 1930s.

    Humans would notice the child was different (really different...)

    And humans would kill that child and everybody else like him as part of
    the same program which killed out the Neanderthal. They would not need
    DNA tests to determine who to kill for that sort of reason, it would be exceedingly obvious.

    https://youtu.be/mZbmywzGAVs

    In other words, it would be a miracle for something like that to ever
    have happened once while the claims from Paabo et. al. require it to
    have been going on all the time. That is, for human/hominid
    cross-breeding to have left detectable traces in the DNA of modern
    humans, it would have to have been entirely common.

    One zero-probability event in the history of the universe? Maybe, but
    not an infinite series of them, i.e. not something that stands
    everything we know about probability on its head.


    Congratulations - you've just proved that Denny Vendramini is wrong. (If
    the observations contradict your premises, your premises are wrong.)

    --
    alias Ernest Major

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  • From RonO@21:1/5 to Athel Cornish-Bowden on Wed Apr 3 17:21:33 2024
    On 4/3/2024 9:14 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
    On 2024-04-03 13:29:25 +0000, panther2020 said:

    We share around half of our genes with the ordinary banana...

    That assuredly does not come from humans BREEDING with bananas...  It
    most liikely comes from humans EATING bananas, pretty much forever,
    and probably throughout the universe and not just on  this planet.

    Likewise, the first experience humans ever had with Neanderthals on
    Earth was watching friends and family members being killed and eaten
    by them, so that eating a Neanderthal that had been killed in some
    battle would have just been sending the Neanderthals a message in
    their own language...

    In both cases, what you seem to be talking about is bacterial
    insertian of genes.

    There is a claim that, because some humans have a certain small number
    of genes in common with Neanderthals, that humans and Neanderthals
    must have interbred. That amounts to thinking that a Neanderthal male
    could/would rape a woman and, rather than cooking and eating her
    afterwards as usual, somehow or other keep her alive long enough to
    bear a cross-species child, raise that child to reproductive age, and
    have him/her breed back into human populations without anybody
    catching on, i.e. the claim is ridiculous.

    In real life:

    Neanderthal females would kill that woman the first time her new owner
    left her alone for ten minutes.

    The woman wouldn't fare any better than the subjects of the commie
    attempts to breed humans and apes into super workers in the 1930s.

    Humans would notice the child was different (really different...)

    And humans would kill that child and everybody else like him as part
    of the same program which killed out the Neanderthal. They would not
    need DNA tests to determine who to kill for that sort of reason, it
    would be exceedingly obvious.

    https://youtu.be/mZbmywzGAVs

    In other words, it would be a miracle for something like that to ever
    have happened once while the claims from Paabo et. al. require it to
    have been going on all the time. That is, for human/hominid
    cross-breeding to have left detectable traces in the DNA of modern
    humans, it would have to have been entirely common.

    One zero-probability event in the history of the universe? Maybe, but
    not an infinite series of them, i.e. not something that stands
    everything we know about probability on its head.

    Severe case of Dunning-Kruger here. So much speculation on so little knowledge. I leave it to others with more energy (Mark?) to take it apart.


    Some ex child actor started using the creationist banana routine around
    20 years ago, and it was just as stupid as it is now.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From panther2020@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 3 21:54:32 2024
    Again...

    There is a claim that, because some humans have a certain small number
    of genes in common with Neanderthals, that humans and Neanderthals must
    have interbred. That amounts to thinking that a Neanderthal male
    could/would rape a woman and, rather than cooking and eating her
    afterwards as usual, somehow or other keep her alive long enough to bear
    a cross-species child, raise that child to reproductive age, and have
    him/her breed back into human populations without anybody catching on,
    i.e. the claim is ridiculous.

    In real life:

    Neanderthal females would kill that woman the first time her new owner
    left her alone for ten minutes.

    The woman wouldn't fare any better than the subjects of the commie
    attempts to breed humans and apes into super workers in the 1930s.

    Humans would notice the child was different (really different...)

    And humans would kill that child and everybody else like him as part of
    the same program which killed out the Neanderthal. They would not need
    DNA tests to determine who to kill for that sort of reason, it would be exceedingly obvious.

    https://youtu.be/mZbmywzGAVs

    In other words, it would be a miracle for something like that to ever
    have happened once while the claims from Paabo et. al. require it to
    have been going on all the time. That is, for human/hominid
    cross-breeding to have left detectable traces in the DNA of modern
    humans, it would have to have been entirely common.

    One zero-probability event in the history of the universe? Maybe, but
    not an infinite series of them, i.e. not something that stands
    everything we know about probability on its head.


    All of that rules out the narrative put out by Paabo and others. The alternative I propose can not be ruled out so easily.

    Here is what I think you have to picture. A cromagnon war party fights a pitched battle with some Neanderthal family group in the late afternoon
    or evening and, they greatly outnumber the hominids and have javelins
    and atlatls while the hominids are limited to thrusting spears so that
    the affair is one sided. Afterwards, the humans are sitting around a
    fire licking any wounds, there are eight or ten neanderthals lying
    around dead, and one of them says something like:

    "Man, this has been a hell of a day, I'm hungry enough to eat just about anything and I'm not about to go off hunting right now, what the hell
    could there be to eat around here??"

    Think really hard, what do you suspect those guys are eating that night?

    And, unless they were to somehow manage to cook one of those hominids
    very thoroughly, bacterial gene insertion would be a real possibility.

    Common genes from some very remote ancestor of both humans and hominids
    is not an option, since all humans would have the genes, and not just
    Europeans and Asians but not Africans as is the case. Plainly,
    Neanderthals were never on he menu in Africa.

    As for Danny Vendramini, you have to remember that Neanderthal dna is
    described as roughly halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee, and
    a bit closer to that of the chimp. You need to ask yourself what you
    think such a creature would look like....

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  • From Ernest Major@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 4 07:45:56 2024
    On 04/04/2024 03:54, panther2020 wrote:

    As for Danny Vendramini, you have to remember that Neanderthal dna is described as roughly halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee, and
    a bit closer to that of the chimp.  You need to ask yourself what you
    think such a creature would look like....

    Like Lucy?

    However, the estimates are the the common ancestor of us and Neandertals
    lived 500,000 years ago, and the common ancestor of us and chimpanzees
    an order of magnitude earlier. Whoever described Neandertal DNA as
    "roughly halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee, and
    a bit closer to that of the chimp" was seriously inaccurate.

    --
    alias Ernest Major

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  • From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to RonO on Thu Apr 4 10:47:56 2024
    On 2024-04-03 22:21:33 +0000, RonO said:

    On 4/3/2024 9:14 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
    On 2024-04-03 13:29:25 +0000, panther2020 said:

    We share around half of our genes with the ordinary banana...

    That assuredly does not come from humans BREEDING with bananas... It
    most liikely comes from humans EATING bananas, pretty much forever, and
    probably throughout the universe and not just on this planet.

    Likewise, the first experience humans ever had with Neanderthals on
    Earth was watching friends and family members being killed and eaten by
    them, so that eating a Neanderthal that had been killed in some battle
    would have just been sending the Neanderthals a message in their own
    language...

    In both cases, what you seem to be talking about is bacterial insertian
    of genes.

    There is a claim that, because some humans have a certain small number
    of genes in common with Neanderthals, that humans and Neanderthals must
    have interbred. That amounts to thinking that a Neanderthal male
    could/would rape a woman and, rather than cooking and eating her
    afterwards as usual, somehow or other keep her alive long enough to
    bear a cross-species child, raise that child to reproductive age, and
    have him/her breed back into human populations without anybody catching
    on, i.e. the claim is ridiculous.

    In real life:

    Neanderthal females would kill that woman the first time her new owner
    left her alone for ten minutes.

    The woman wouldn't fare any better than the subjects of the commie
    attempts to breed humans and apes into super workers in the 1930s.

    Humans would notice the child was different (really different...)

    And humans would kill that child and everybody else like him as part of
    the same program which killed out the Neanderthal. They would not need
    DNA tests to determine who to kill for that sort of reason, it would be
    exceedingly obvious.

    https://youtu.be/mZbmywzGAVs

    In other words, it would be a miracle for something like that to ever
    have happened once while the claims from Paabo et. al. require it to
    have been going on all the time. That is, for human/hominid
    cross-breeding to have left detectable traces in the DNA of modern
    humans, it would have to have been entirely common.

    One zero-probability event in the history of the universe? Maybe, but
    not an infinite series of them, i.e. not something that stands
    everything we know about probability on its head.

    Severe case of Dunning-Kruger here. So much speculation on so little
    knowledge. I leave it to others with more energy (Mark?) to take it
    apart.


    Some ex child actor started using the creationist banana routine around
    20 years ago, and it was just as stupid as it is now.

    Why stop at bananas? Humans and yeast have much the same biochemistry,
    and many enzymes (the hexokinases, for example) are clearly homologous.
    Did our ancestors get their hexokinases by drinking too much
    inadequately filtered beer? How did they manage before beer was
    available? Without hexokinases much of biochemistry (glycolysis, for
    example) would be impossible. Are we as closely related to
    Saccharomyces cerevisiae as we are to bananas?

    --
    Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly
    in England until 1987.

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  • From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to Ernest Major on Thu Apr 4 10:40:47 2024
    On 2024-04-04 06:45:56 +0000, Ernest Major said:

    On 04/04/2024 03:54, panther2020 wrote:

    As for Danny Vendramini, you have to remember that Neanderthal dna is
    described as roughly halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee, and
    a bit closer to that of the chimp. You need to ask yourself what you
    think such a creature would look like....

    Like Lucy?

    However, the estimates are the the common ancestor of us and
    Neandertals lived 500,000 years ago, and the common ancestor of us and chimpanzees an order of magnitude earlier. Whoever described Neandertal
    DNA as "roughly halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee, and
    a bit closer to that of the chimp" was seriously inaccurate.

    Like everything else in panther2020's posts.


    --
    Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly
    in England until 1987.

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  • From *Hemidactylus*@21:1/5 to panther2020@vivaldi.net on Thu Apr 4 09:22:14 2024
    panther2020 <panther2020@vivaldi.net> wrote:
    Again...

    There is a claim that, because some humans have a certain small number
    of genes in common with Neanderthals, that humans and Neanderthals must
    have interbred. That amounts to thinking that a Neanderthal male
    could/would rape a woman and, rather than cooking and eating her
    afterwards as usual, somehow or other keep her alive long enough to bear
    a cross-species child, raise that child to reproductive age, and have
    him/her breed back into human populations without anybody catching on,
    i.e. the claim is ridiculous.

    In real life:

    Neanderthal females would kill that woman the first time her new owner
    left her alone for ten minutes.

    The woman wouldn't fare any better than the subjects of the commie
    attempts to breed humans and apes into super workers in the 1930s.

    Humans would notice the child was different (really different...)

    And humans would kill that child and everybody else like him as part of
    the same program which killed out the Neanderthal. They would not need
    DNA tests to determine who to kill for that sort of reason, it would be
    exceedingly obvious.

    https://youtu.be/mZbmywzGAVs

    In other words, it would be a miracle for something like that to ever
    have happened once while the claims from Paabo et. al. require it to
    have been going on all the time. That is, for human/hominid
    cross-breeding to have left detectable traces in the DNA of modern
    humans, it would have to have been entirely common.

    One zero-probability event in the history of the universe? Maybe, but
    not an infinite series of them, i.e. not something that stands
    everything we know about probability on its head.


    All of that rules out the narrative put out by Paabo and others. The alternative I propose can not be ruled out so easily.

    Here is what I think you have to picture. A cromagnon war party fights a pitched battle with some Neanderthal family group in the late afternoon
    or evening and, they greatly outnumber the hominids and have javelins
    and atlatls while the hominids are limited to thrusting spears so that
    the affair is one sided. Afterwards, the humans are sitting around a
    fire licking any wounds, there are eight or ten neanderthals lying
    around dead, and one of them says something like:

    "Man, this has been a hell of a day, I'm hungry enough to eat just about anything and I'm not about to go off hunting right now, what the hell
    could there be to eat around here??"

    Think really hard, what do you suspect those guys are eating that night?

    And, unless they were to somehow manage to cook one of those hominids
    very thoroughly, bacterial gene insertion would be a real possibility.

    Thus taking “You are what you eat” to absurd extremes. If our genomes were so susceptible to bacterial gene insertion (how precisely does that
    work…step by step?) we would be swamped by a vanishing form of blending inheritance via horizontal gene transfer. Meat eaters and vegans would
    diverge into separate human lineages. Only cannibals would remain
    purebloods.

    Common genes from some very remote ancestor of both humans and hominids
    is not an option, since all humans would have the genes, and not just Europeans and Asians but not Africans as is the case. Plainly,
    Neanderthals were never on he menu in Africa.

    As for Danny Vendramini, you have to remember that Neanderthal dna is described as roughly halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee, and
    a bit closer to that of the chimp. You need to ask yourself what you
    think such a creature would look like....

    Manpanzee?

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  • From *Hemidactylus*@21:1/5 to John Harshman on Thu Apr 4 19:35:40 2024
    John Harshman <john.harshman@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 4/3/24 7:14 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
    On 2024-04-03 13:29:25 +0000, panther2020 said:

    We share around half of our genes with the ordinary banana...

    That assuredly does not come from humans BREEDING with bananas...  It
    most liikely comes from humans EATING bananas, pretty much forever,
    and probably throughout the universe and not just on  this planet.

    Likewise, the first experience humans ever had with Neanderthals on
    Earth was watching friends and family members being killed and eaten
    by them, so that eating a Neanderthal that had been killed in some
    battle would have just been sending the Neanderthals a message in
    their own language...

    In both cases, what you seem to be talking about is bacterial
    insertian of genes.

    There is a claim that, because some humans have a certain small number
    of genes in common with Neanderthals, that humans and Neanderthals
    must have interbred. That amounts to thinking that a Neanderthal male
    could/would rape a woman and, rather than cooking and eating her
    afterwards as usual, somehow or other keep her alive long enough to
    bear a cross-species child, raise that child to reproductive age, and
    have him/her breed back into human populations without anybody
    catching on, i.e. the claim is ridiculous.

    In real life:

    Neanderthal females would kill that woman the first time her new owner
    left her alone for ten minutes.

    The woman wouldn't fare any better than the subjects of the commie
    attempts to breed humans and apes into super workers in the 1930s.

    Humans would notice the child was different (really different...)

    And humans would kill that child and everybody else like him as part
    of the same program which killed out the Neanderthal. They would not
    need DNA tests to determine who to kill for that sort of reason, it
    would be exceedingly obvious.

    https://youtu.be/mZbmywzGAVs

    In other words, it would be a miracle for something like that to ever
    have happened once while the claims from Paabo et. al. require it to
    have been going on all the time. That is, for human/hominid
    cross-breeding to have left detectable traces in the DNA of modern
    humans, it would have to have been entirely common.

    One zero-probability event in the history of the universe? Maybe, but
    not an infinite series of them, i.e. not something that stands
    everything we know about probability on its head.

    Severe case of Dunning-Kruger here. So much speculation on so little
    knowledge. I leave it to others with more energy (Mark?) to take it apart. >>
    No, this looks like a job for JTEM. Let them hash it out, and nobody
    else needs to be bothered.

    What has panther2020 done that warrants that fate? You’re evil!

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  • From Ernest Major@21:1/5 to Athel Cornish-Bowden on Thu Apr 4 21:29:50 2024
    On 04/04/2024 09:47, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
    Are we as closely related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae as we are to bananas?

    We're more closely related to S. cerevisiae than we are to Musa
    paradisiaca. The location of the eukaryote root has been disputed, but
    it's generally agreed that Holomycota and Holozoa form a clade that's on
    one side of the root, and Viridiplantae are on the other side.

    --
    alias Ernest Major

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  • From Burkhard@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 4 23:56:14 2024
    panther2020 wrote:

    We share around half of our genes with the ordinary banana...

    That assuredly does not come from humans BREEDING with bananas... It
    most liikely comes from humans EATING bananas, pretty much forever, and probably throughout the universe and not just on this planet.

    That over-complicates things, eating is not necessary. I mean,
    have you ever noticed how much dogs look like their owners? That's
    of course not because they eat each other, it is perfectly sufficient
    to be exposed to each other's morphic fields.

    Just try it out yourself: Stay for eight months or so next to a
    banana, doing absolutely nothing else but looking at it. At the
    end of that period, we can compare you and the banana, and I'm sure
    that by that time you two will look much moe similar than before


    Likewise, the first experience humans ever had with Neanderthals on
    Earth was watching friends and family members being killed and eaten by
    them, so that eating a Neanderthal that had been killed in some battle
    would have just been sending the Neanderthals a message in their own language...

    In both cases, what you seem to be talking about is bacterial insertian
    of genes.

    There is a claim that, because some humans have a certain small number
    of genes in common with Neanderthals, that humans and Neanderthals must
    have interbred. That amounts to thinking that a Neanderthal male
    could/would rape a woman and, rather than cooking and eating her
    afterwards as usual, somehow or other keep her alive long enough to bear
    a cross-species child, raise that child to reproductive age, and have
    him/her breed back into human populations without anybody catching on,
    i.e. the claim is ridiculous.

    In real life:

    Neanderthal females would kill that woman the first time her new owner
    left her alone for ten minutes.

    The woman wouldn't fare any better than the subjects of the commie
    attempts to breed humans and apes into super workers in the 1930s.

    Humans would notice the child was different (really different...)

    And humans would kill that child and everybody else like him as part of
    the same program which killed out the Neanderthal. They would not need
    DNA tests to determine who to kill for that sort of reason, it would be exceedingly obvious.

    https://youtu.be/mZbmywzGAVs

    In other words, it would be a miracle for something like that to ever
    have happened once while the claims from Paabo et. al. require it to
    have been going on all the time. That is, for human/hominid
    cross-breeding to have left detectable traces in the DNA of modern
    humans, it would have to have been entirely common.

    One zero-probability event in the history of the universe? Maybe, but
    not an infinite series of them, i.e. not something that stands
    everything we know about probability on its head.

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  • From *Hemidactylus*@21:1/5 to Burkhard on Fri Apr 5 01:36:37 2024
    Burkhard <b.schafer@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
    panther2020 wrote:

    We share around half of our genes with the ordinary banana...

    That assuredly does not come from humans BREEDING with bananas... It
    most liikely comes from humans EATING bananas, pretty much forever, and
    probably throughout the universe and not just on this planet.

    That over-complicates things, eating is not necessary. I mean,
    have you ever noticed how much dogs look like their owners? That's
    of course not because they eat each other, it is perfectly sufficient
    to be exposed to each other's morphic fields.

    Just try it out yourself: Stay for eight months or so next to a
    banana, doing absolutely nothing else but looking at it. At the
    end of that period, we can compare you and the banana, and I'm sure
    that by that time you two will look much moe similar than before

    I’ve heard that helps for penis size or at least more so than eating
    bananas. Cucumbers though! More morphic resonance please. I tried to stare
    at a blimp hangar in Pompano. It failed to take. When I tried to eat the
    blimp the local authorities got all against the science.

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  • From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to Ernest Major on Fri Apr 5 09:26:21 2024
    On 2024-04-04 20:29:50 +0000, Ernest Major said:

    On 04/04/2024 09:47, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
    Are we as closely related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae as we are to bananas?

    We're more closely related to S. cerevisiae than we are to Musa
    paradisiaca. The location of the eukaryote root has been disputed, but
    it's generally agreed that Holomycota and Holozoa form a clade that's
    on one side of the root, and Viridiplantae are on the other side.

    No doubt you're right. I should have checked before pronouncing on our
    cousin Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    --
    athel cb : Biochemical Evolution, Garland Science, 2016

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