from the better-keep-an-eye-on-Ozzy-Osbourne dept.
Study: Neanderthal genes may be liability for COVID-19 patients:
Researchers Hugo Zeberg and Svante Paabo determined that the genes belong to a group, or haplotype, which likely came from Neanderthals. The haplotype is found in about 16% of the population in Europe and half the population in South Asia, while in Africa and East Asia it is non-existent.
[...] The genes are one of several risk factors for COVID-19, including age, sex and pre-existing conditions like obesity, diabetes and heart problems.
Zeberg and Paabo, who work at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, noted that the prevalence of the particular Neanderthal gene group is highest in people from Bangladesh, where 63% are estimated to carry a copy of the haplotype.
They cited studies from the U.K. showing that people of Bangladeshi descent have about two times higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than the general population.
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Interbreeding with Neandertals[1] restored some genetic heirlooms that modern humans left behind in the ancient exodus from Africa, new research suggests.
Those heirlooms are versions of genes, or alleles, that were present in humans' and Neandertals' shared ancestors. Neandertals carried many of those old alleles, passing them along generation after generation, while developing their own versions of other genes. A small number of humans left Africa around 100,000 years ago and settled in Asia and Europe. These migrants "lost" the ancestral alleles.
But when the migrants or their descendants interbred with Neandertals, Eurasians reinherited the ancestral heirlooms along with Neandertal DNA, John "Tony" Capra reported October 20 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.
Unfortunately, a few of the genes identified are associated with disease.
[1] Though most often spelled Neanderthal, Neandertal is also a valid spelling.
In recent years, scientists have discovered that early humans moving out of Africa encountered Neanderthals living in parts of what is now Europe and Eastern Asia. In comparing Neanderthal DNA with modern humans, researchers have found that there was a least one pairing that led to offspring, which is reflected in the DNA of humans—approximately 2 percent of the DNA in non-African humans today is Neanderthal. In this new effort, the researchers have found evidence that suggests there was more than one such encounter.
Their findings make logical sense, considering that anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals coexisted for approximately 30,000 years. Recent research by other groups had suggested that multiple offspring-producing unions had occurred—some people in East Asia, for example, were found to have up to 20 percent more Neanderthal DNA than people of strictly European descent. In this new effort, the researchers took a more stringent look to find out once and for all if there had been multiple pairings or just one. They pulled and analyzed data from the 1000 Genomes Project, measuring the amount of Neanderthal DNA in genetic material from volunteers. The first step was separating the data between people of European and Asian ancestry. Doing so suggested that both groups had evidence of early multiple mating events. The researchers then studied the rates of the two groups by creating simulations showing outcomes of differing numbers of mating events between the two groups. Data from the simulations was then fed into a machine-learning algorithm that showed DNA percentage patterns based on the number of cross-breeding events that had occurred.
When you play Barry White, anything can happen.
Woolly mammoths and Neanderthals may have shared genetic traits
A new Tel Aviv University study suggests that the genetic profiles of two extinct mammals with African ancestry -- woolly mammoths, elephant-like animals that evolved in the arctic peninsula of Eurasia around 600,000 years ago, and Neanderthals, highly skilled early humans who evolved in Europe around 400,000 years ago -- shared molecular characteristics of adaptation to cold environments.
The research attributes the human-elephant relationship during the Pleistocene epoch to their mutual ecology and shared living environments, in addition to other possible interactions between the two species. The study was led by Prof. Ran Barkai and Meidad Kislev of TAU's Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures and published on April 8 in Human Biology.
"Neanderthals and mammoths lived together in Europe during the Ice Age. The evidence suggests that Neanderthals hunted and ate mammoths for tens of thousands of years and were actually physically dependent on calories extracted from mammoths for their successful adaptation," says Prof. Barkai. "Neanderthals depended on mammoths for their very existence. They say you are what you eat. This was especially true of Neanderthals; they ate mammoths but were apparently also genetically similar to mammoths."
Neanderthal and Woolly Mammoth Molecular Resemblance: Genetic Similarities May Underlie Cold Adaptation Suite (DOI: 10.13110/humanbiology.90.2.03) (DX)
Neanderthals ate sharks and dolphins
Neanderthals were eating fish, mussels and seals at a site in present-day Portugal, according to a new study.
The research adds to mounting evidence that our evolutionary relatives may have relied on the sea for food just as much as ancient modern humans.
For decades, the ability to gather food from the sea and from rivers was seen as something unique to our own species.
Scientists found evidence for an intensive reliance on seafood at a Neanderthal site in southern Portugal.
Neanderthals living between 106,000 and 86,000 years ago at the cave of Figueira Brava near Setubal were eating mussels, crab, fish - including sharks, eels and sea bream - seabirds, dolphins and seals.
The research team, led by Dr João Zilhão from the University of Barcelona, Spain, found that marine food made up about 50% of the diet of the Figueira Brava Neanderthals. The other half came from terrestrial animals, such as deer, goats, horses, aurochs (ancient wild cattle) and tortoises.
Also at ScienceAlert and Smithsonian Magazine.
Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers (DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz7943) (DX)
Related: Arctic Inuit, Native American Cold Adaptations May Originate from Extinct Hominids
Evidence of "Swimmer's Ear" Found in Neanderthals
Women with Neandertal gene give birth to more children
One in three women in Europe inherited the receptor for progesterone from Neandertals – a gene variant associated with increased fertility, fewer bleedings during early pregnancy and fewer miscarriages. This is according to a study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
[...] Progesterone is a hormone, which plays an important role in the menstrual cycle and in pregnancy. Analyses of biobank data from more than 450,000 participants – among them 244,000 women – show that almost one in three women in Europe have inherited the progesterone receptor from Neandertals. 29 percent carry one copy of the Neandertal receptor and three percent have two copies.
"The proportion of women who inherited this gene is about ten times greater than for most Neandertal gene variants," says Hugo Zeberg. "These findings suggest that the Neandertal variant of the receptor has a favourable effect on fertility."
Journal Reference:
Hugo Zeberg, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo. Neandertal Progesterone Receptor [open], Molecular Biology and Evolution (DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa119)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @04:36PM (21 children)
Make sense. Anyone who still dies from this has low intelligence. It was cured back in April, just stop listening to the same people who said patients should go on a ventilator ASAP.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @05:07PM (20 children)
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Don't you know it has been proovd? By Siensce????//?
*drool* *sputter*
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @05:12PM (19 children)
Sir, please put your mask and buttplug back on.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @05:16PM
I think her problem is she got them switched around.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday October 01 2020, @05:18PM (16 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @05:26PM (15 children)
- Has sig about overdone repetitive jokes.
- Posts overdone repetitive joke
I see a pattern here.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday October 01 2020, @05:35PM (14 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @05:39PM (13 children)
Claim about buttplugs? Covid spreads through fecal matter dude. If you arent wearing your buttplug you are putting us all at risk.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday October 01 2020, @05:41PM (12 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:02PM (11 children)
It was cured in april. If you still die from this it is only because you are stupid. There is no reason for anyone further to die of covid.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:08PM (10 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:13PM (9 children)
Yes, I know. Science has no credibility on soylent. That is why I dont bother with it here anymore.
In general humanity has proven it deserves what it is going to get.
(Score: 1) by Tork on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:24PM (2 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @09:11PM (1 child)
1) Citation needed.
2) GoTo 1.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday October 02 2020, @03:30PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:25PM (4 children)
I find the people who never bother with science, never bothered with science. It's easy to blame others for your own failings.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:29PM (1 child)
You khallow think a link to a paper does not count as evidence.
Anyway, most likely you will all get vaxxed and then SARS3 will take you out. But you have been told what to do and have only yourselves to blame.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:35PM
And I would be right. Evidence doesn't mean link to a paper. It means evidence that distinguishes between relevant hypotheses. Dumping a bunch of links, most which aren't relevant to the claim, and a few which actually undermine the claim aren't evidence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:31PM (1 child)
Unless it conflicts with my beliefs about coal mining jaaaaabs then f--- the science nerds.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:37PM
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday October 02 2020, @10:30AM
However, I'm glad you have now admitted that your contribution to this thread is indeed lacking in the science department. However, believe it or not, at least 2 people had already noticed that, you can tell from their responses.
You made a shitty joke, we didn't laugh, get over it, stop trying to engage us at length with an explanation of how your shitty joke was informative or insightful. Move on.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:56PM
There is no credible evidence that wearing buttplugs can effectively stop the transmission of Covid-19. Save the supplies of buttplugs for the professionals that need them.
Just abandon your civilization for two weeks to flatten the curve.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @05:23PM (1 child)
I'm dead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @07:23PM
Your sister is strangely attractive. But I'll wait until you're gone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @05:40PM (11 children)
I hope they compensated in their study for the fact that people in Bangladesh live in miserable shitholes conditions, are generally malnourished and in poor health, and have twice as much chances of dying of complications from the most mundane afflictions, even a simple sunburn.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @05:52PM (10 children)
The study was about people of Bangladeshi origin living in England. Still miserable conditions, just a slight tad less shitholy.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:01PM (4 children)
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:15PM (3 children)
What is this? An AC with more integrity than TMB or Runaway19Boomer6????
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @09:14PM (2 children)
That's because the AC you're replying to isn't the OP. I'm the OP. Maybe I should get an account on SN to avoid being impersonated by asshats in the future.
Seriously, an AC with integrity ? You should have known better.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 02 2020, @02:31AM (1 child)
So, fake AC spouting fake news? Sounds about right.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @05:33AM
Fake news has to be something reporting itself as news. An AC pretending to be another AC is not fake news. Why am I explaining this to you? Pretty sure you went into a rage seizure after the first two words!
(Score: 1, Troll) by fakefuck39 on Thursday October 01 2020, @08:14PM (4 children)
yes, but how many of those include people from there who are immediate immigrants from bangladesh, or 1st generation who still follow unsanitary and unhealthy lifestyles? I mean like wiping your shit-covered ass with your hand.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @02:33AM (1 child)
You've been told that if you remove your Depends before you shit, your ass won't be covered in shit.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Friday October 02 2020, @02:42AM
In Bangladesh it is quite literally common to use your hand and wash it afterwards, instead of toilet paper. You made a bad joke due to not ever having a passport. I however did not make a joke - I stated a fact.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @02:56AM (1 child)
As a massage therapist, my wife says that (not all) westerners have most disgusting unclean arses compared to other cultures. Wiping your arse with dry toilet paper and thinking it's clean is major fail 101. In countries without toilet paper, you generally have a bum-gun or bidet - which is like taking a shower after you shit.
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Friday October 02 2020, @07:27AM
that's nice and all, however in bangladesh they don't have that. they pour water on their ass with tjeir right hand, while cleaning the shit with their left. and in america, we wipe with toilet paper, followed by an antibacterial wet-wipe, because that's more convenient than a stream of water shooting up your faggot ass, and cleaner, since the wipe has cleaner and disinfectant in it, not just water. your basic knowledge of the world needs a 101 course.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:44PM (12 children)
Remember that Donny Duplicitous knew it was airborne, knew it was deadly, and chose to mislead the public in a vain attempt to protect his own image. This tool is directly responsible for 10s of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of deaths by the time this is over. Oh ya, and he us calling on para-military groups to take actions, kinda like a certain someone from the 30s who got his ass handed to him in the 40s.
We already knew, but the last many months have removed all uncertainty that Trump and the GOP are attempting a fascist coup led by a white supremacist. Anyone confused by this or doubting this needs to go review the video evidence and stop excusing Trumo's fascism like he is a silly toddler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:59PM (7 children)
I disagree, you can sling around Nazi analogies all you want, but I'm still voting Trump.
All you can do about that is downmod me in a worthless show of rage that I choose *my* educated thoughts over *yours*.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @07:43PM
You sure are triggered and sobbing about that!
(Score: 4, Touché) by Tork on Thursday October 01 2020, @08:03PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @09:11PM (4 children)
By voting for Trump you show just how uneducated you are. Or how racist, no one said racists can't be smart. Hate is a powerful thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @09:22PM (3 children)
I owe you and your feelz no fealty. I'm still voting for Trump. Seeing yet how politics works?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @09:56PM (2 children)
Fealty is a bitch. I hope you'll come to the same conclusion somewhere over the next four years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @10:15PM (1 child)
Since I was pleasantly surprised by the Trump administration in the previous four years, I would not count on my opinions materially changing over the next four years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @05:35AM
Found Putin!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 02 2020, @02:35AM (3 children)
Whatever flavor of assholes the Proud Boys might be, they aren't white supremacists.
https://www.bet.com/news/national/2020/10/01/black-lives-matter-proud-boys-utah-trump.html [bet.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @05:38AM (2 children)
Really spamming that shit everywhere huh?
Who gives a fuck anyway? Trump refuses to denounce white supremacy. Get that through your squidgy little brain.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 02 2020, @10:59AM (1 child)
I got that - Trump missed a great opportunity to defuse some of you rabid progressives. Check the #soylent logs during the debate for verification that I have acknowledged that simple fact.
But, you don't seem to understand that Proud Boys, who Trump was specifically asked about, are not white supremacists. Some of you are stuck in the "orange man bad, white man evil" loop, and you can't come out of it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @06:50PM
https://twitter.com/whet/status/1311754675096616964 [twitter.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday October 01 2020, @06:48PM (4 children)
Looking at footage of recent Trump super-spreader rally's I'm thinking it's more about Neanderthal brains.
(Score: 4, Touché) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday October 01 2020, @07:33PM (3 children)
How insulting of my Neanderthal ancestors who, on average, had a larger brain volume than "modern" humans.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @08:42PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2020, @08:59PM
Have you talked to one? That's what I thought.
I love how people confuse intelligence with technology. I see people using smartphones all fuckign day, I wouldn't call them intelligent.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday October 01 2020, @10:42PM
You must be fun at parties.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday October 01 2020, @10:20PM
looks like most of us [cnn.com] are in trouble.. even people from Africa.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0, Spam) by nobita88 on Friday October 02 2020, @08:13AM
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday October 02 2020, @06:19PM
At least in the US, half the people who die from it are Black, while being a quarter of the population. Someone is leaving a few variables out of an equation or two (like the Drake equation, we don't know what all the variables are, or their values).
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