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I adjusted him as on one of my devices I noticed that he was coming accross as a bit too 'in your face' which might give some newbies the wrong impression.

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Alright, I asked for it and was given a lecture.

She believes we're on the "cusp of understanding" this stuff. However, any information out there that currently pertains to the body storing whole pieces of DNA from diet, and subsequently passing it on to the next generation might be speculative (or pseudo-science). Also, the author might have a questionable motivation for writing such an article.

When a person catches a disease such as HIV that it is passed on to the next generation, to demonstrates that foreign DNA can be passed through generations. So it does seem possible but somehow the "alien" DNA from diet has to be processed intact-ish through to the reproductive organs.

I suppose that raises a further question: If homo-sapiens and neanderthals were capable of successful interbreeding then, does that mean any DNA of neanderthals, consumed by homo-sapiens could be more er, "adoptable" in the body of the homo-sapien?

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Not sure what you mean :confused:

It's not 'if' and it's not to do with diet (as far as I understand). Comparison of the human and Neanderthal genomes confirm that some interbreeding between the species took place.

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I'm actually a bit fuzzy on British history before 793 CE and the picture doesn't become fully clear until 1066. So you're saying that the original Neanderthals of the British Isles died out long before the homo-sapiens (some with continental Neanderthal DNA) migrated there from the continent. In that case, then you're right that the original Britons shouldn't include the Neanderthals who lived there.

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Like Novo, I wasn't aware that there were Neanderthals in Britain (but that's an interesting article you linked). If they were here they may have died out during a time when modern humans were on the island (say 50000 years ago). My point was only that we are separate species.

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This old article suggests the extinction of the Neanderthals was down to the humans hunting and eating them: How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans | Science | The Observer

If this scenario is both correct and indicative of the general interactions between the species, I'm curious how the Neanderthal, the prey, were able to successfully breed with their hunters.

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Not to be confused with Newfoundlanderthal. :lol:

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Maybe they only ate the men and kept the women as sex slaves.

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Yeah, I remember those greedy bastards.

They ate all the Codus morhua.

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Lloyd said everyone in Europe did it; he said the lights from all the ships off the grand banks looked like a city.

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Actually, the article doesn't at all suggest eradication through hunting. Perhaps there were instances of it, but it's more likely that modern humans out-competed their Neanderthal cousins and the population simply dwindled away.

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And I'm English but cursed with a UK passport!

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Am I allowed to say this ?

I'm English, I was born and grew in England, oops said it!

A bit rich really. I traced my family tree back 200 years and on the direct father to son line some of them married women of Irish descent, even my mum is half Irish.

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English, moved here 9 long years ago and I guess I'm technically half Canadian now too although I don't particularly identify with it and have never felt settled here.

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^^^ Yup.

British & Irish, got here via France, UK, Hong Kong, Australia, Hong Kong, UK, France :).

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