http://www.blisstree.com/articles/neanderthals-had-red-hair/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:56:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.blisstree.com/articles/neanderthals-had-red-hair/comment-page-1/#comment-568928 The Creature from the Health Librarianship Class » Promoting the Red Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:26:36 +0000 http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/2007/10/28/neanderthals-had-red-hair/#comment-568928 [...] pm | Tagged as: Zombies, Hair As a person of the red-haired persuasion, I am pleased to read on Genetics and Health that red hair may have also been known among [...] [...] pm | Tagged as: Zombies, Hair As a person of the red-haired persuasion, I am pleased to read on Genetics and Health that red hair may have also been known among [...]

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/neanderthals-had-red-hair/comment-page-1/#comment-569027 Barry Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:47:07 +0000 http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/2007/10/28/neanderthals-had-red-hair/#comment-569027 I don't think there has been a lot of resistance but scientists haven't found any evidence yet of interbreeding when they look at Neanderthal DNA (see http://www.thetech.org/genetics/news.php?id=37 and http://www.thetech.org/genetics/news.php?id=59 for the details). I don’t think there has been a lot of resistance but scientists haven’t found any evidence yet of interbreeding when they look at Neanderthal DNA (see http://www.thetech.org/genetics/news.php?id=37 and http://www.thetech.org/genetics/news.php?id=59 for the details).

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/neanderthals-had-red-hair/comment-page-1/#comment-569019 Susan Pettee Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:44:26 +0000 http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/2007/10/28/neanderthals-had-red-hair/#comment-569019 It seems as if prominent noses and blond or red hair are co-extensive with the areas where Neanderthals apparently lived; they appear nowhere else, even in very high latitudes in Asia, for example. Reasoning backward from that, I do wonder why we are so resistant to thinking that some interbreeding, even a very little bit, might have happened between Neanderthals and homo sapiens. It seems as if prominent noses and blond or red hair are co-extensive with the areas where Neanderthals apparently lived; they appear nowhere else, even in very high latitudes in Asia, for example. Reasoning backward from that, I do wonder why we are so resistant to thinking that some interbreeding, even a very little bit, might have happened between Neanderthals and homo sapiens.

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/neanderthals-had-red-hair/comment-page-1/#comment-569013 Barry Starr Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:36:25 +0000 http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/2007/10/28/neanderthals-had-red-hair/#comment-569013 What was cool about this report for me was that the neanderthal didn't have any known human mutation in its MC1R gene. In other words, its MC1R gene doesn't work for a different reason than my son's. This is interesting because I can remember a lot of talk a few years back about how red hair and the MC1R gene in people suggested that there was interbreeding 30,000 or so years ago. Clearly we didn't get our red ahir from this particular Nenaderthal. What was cool about this report for me was that the neanderthal didn’t have any known human mutation in its MC1R gene. In other words, its MC1R gene doesn’t work for a different reason than my son’s. This is interesting because I can remember a lot of talk a few years back about how red hair and the MC1R gene in people suggested that there was interbreeding 30,000 or so years ago. Clearly we didn’t get our red ahir from this particular Nenaderthal.

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