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How Much Neanderthal Are You? Signs in Skin Tone, Hair Color, Sleep Patterns and Mood

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When humans and Neanderthals found each other many thousands of years ago, the two species began interbreeding. Although Neanderthals aren’t around anymore, about two percent of the DNA in non-African people living today comes from them. Neanderthal DNA has apparently had both positive and negative effects.

 

Recent studies have shown that some of those Neanderthal genes have contributed to human immunity and modern diseases. Now researchers reporting in the American Journal of Human Genetics on October 5th have found that our Neanderthal inheritance has contributed to other characteristics, too, including skin tone, hair color, sleep patterns, mood, and even a person’s smoking status.

Credit: Smithsonian Institution

Inspired by an earlier study that found associations between Neanderthal DNA and disease risk, Janet Kelso at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany says her team was interested in exploring connections between Neanderthal DNA and traits unrelated to disease. In other words, they wanted to uncover the “influence Neanderthal DNA might be having on ordinary variation in people today.”

Because Neanderthal alleles are relatively rare, the researchers needed data representing a really large number of people. They found what they were looking for in data representing more than 112,000 participants in the UK Biobank pilot study. The Biobank includes genetic data along with information on many traits related to physical appearance, diet, sun exposure, behavior, and disease.

Earlier studies had suggested that human genes involved in skin and hair biology were strongly influenced by Neanderthal DNA, Kelso says. But it hadn’t been clear how.

“We can now show that it is skin tone, and the ease with which one tans, as well as hair color that are affected,” Kelso says.

The researchers observe multiple different Neanderthal alleles contributing to skin and hair tones. What they found somewhat surprising is that some Neanderthal alleles are associated with lighter skin tones and others with darker skin tones. The same was true for hair color.

Homo neanderthalensis in National Museum of Natural Sciences of Spain
Credit: Tiia Monto/Wikimedia Commons
“These findings suggest that Neanderthals might have differed in their hair and skin tones, much as people now do” adds Michael Dannemann, first author of the study.

Kelso notes that the traits influenced by Neanderthal DNA, including skin and hair pigmentation, mood, and sleeping patterns are all linked to sunlight exposure. When modern humans arrived in Eurasia about 100,000 years ago, Neanderthals had already lived there for thousands of years. They were likely well adapted to lower and more variable levels of ultraviolet radiation from the sun than the new human arrivals from Africa were accustomed to.

“Skin and hair color, circadian rhythms and mood are all influenced by light exposure,” the researchers wrote. “We speculate that their identification in our analysis suggests that sun exposure may have shaped Neanderthal phenotypes and that gene flow into modern humans continues to contribute to variation in these traits today.”

Kelso and her colleagues say they’ll continue to explore Neanderthals’ influence on modern-day traits as more data becomes available.

Contacts and sources: 
Joseph Caputo
Cell Press

Citation: 
The contribution of Neandertals to phenotypic variation in modern humans. 
Michael Dannemann and Janet Kelso.  American Journal of Human Genetics, 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.09.010

 


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    • beLIEve

      Quote from the article…..

      Because…. NEANDERTHAL …alleles…ARE RELATIVELY RARE, the RESEARCHERS NEEDED DATA REPRESENTING…..A REALLY LARGE NUMBER of “PEOPLE”.

      THEY FOUND WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR in data representing more than 112,000 participants IN THE UK Biobank pilot study.

      * *
      :idea:
      I am assuming the …DATA….located in the UK…..related to the …LARGE NUMBER of ILLEGAL ALIEN ashkeNAZI khazar FAUX-”joo$”….UNLAWFULLY INFESTING these once fair Islands. :smile:
      :idea:
      * *

      They Are Not Like Us — by Jack Harper

      Roughly 6 percent of the world’s population consists of people with NEANDERTHAL GENES. Jews fall into this category.
      THIS is WHY JEWS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM: because …THEIR NEANDERTHAL GENES…make them TWICE as AGGRESSIVE as the rest of the world’s Cro-Magnon derived races.

      “Basically, I estimate that about seventy percent of the present crisis on this planet can be fairly attributed to the machinations of NEANDERTHAL-SEMITIC elements of the human population against the Cro-Magnon majority.” — Michael Bradley, ESAU’S EMPIRE.

      Quite independent of Arthur Koestler, whose work he had never read, Michael Bradley, a Canadian-based writer of Jewish origin, released his own 1978 work, ‘THE ICEMAN INHERITANCE’ followed up by its sequel, ‘CHOSEN PEOPLE FROM THE CAUCUSES.’ In both these BOOKS, Bradley put forth his thesis that the modern day people known as the JEWS WERE DESCENDANTS from the KHAZARS and that, INDEED, the KHAZARS COULD TRACE THEIR ORIGINS BACK to…THE NEANDERTHALS.

      Bradley’s website at michaelbradley.info describes Bradley’s findings in part: In Chosen People from the Caucasus, Bradley focuses on the two separate groups of people who came from the Caucasus Mountains of the Middle East: the Biblical Hebrews who emerged from the southern Caucasus between 3000-2000 BC to invade Palestine, and the northern Caucasus “Khazars” who were converted to Judaism about 740A.D.
      The Khazars were pushed into Central and Eastern Europe by Mongol invasions, and their descendants comprise the vast majority of modern Jewry. Although these have no direct historical or genetic connections with the Semitic Jews of the Holy Land, both groups shared a Neanderthal origin in the Caucasus Mountains in the far distant pre-Judaic past.
      Bradley contends that people and cultures emerging from the Caucasus Mountains — a known refuge of late lingering Neanderthal populations — in proto-historical and historical times, would have remained highly intelligent, highly aggressive and psychosexually maladapted, promoting a high level of in-group cohesion. These traits, Bradley contends, explain the survival of Biblical Hebrews against all odds and also the inordinate social influence of modern Western Jews.
      Bradley contends that there is no mystique of “the chosen people.” Monotheism— a purely male and abstract Godhead— is merely a result of Neanderthal glacial physical and mental adaptations or “MALADAPTATIONS.”

      Proven Neanderthal in-group cohesion and extreme aggression together resulted in a fiercely parochial “chosen people” perspective.
      The cultural fusion of the two separate streams of “Jews” has, since the 16th century, played an important role in the evolution of Western Civilization and thus in the molding of the entire world’s present cultural profile.
      Bradley contends that a uniquely high level of lingering Neanderthal aggression, perpetuated by ethnic prohibitions against outside marriage, has been responsible for the major role played by those calling themselves Jews in the discovery and conquest of the Americas, the transatlantic trade in Black Africans as slaves and cultural colonization of non-Whites by the West. It has been a role too often distorted and disguised by loud lamentations of “anti-Semitism.”
      Bradley writes further of his own research and the subsequent controversy that erupted when many media outlets (and Jewish sources) which had previously hailed his writing on the topic of the Neanderthals came to realize that his work pointed toward Neanderthal origins for the Jewish people:

      The “Jewish” ASHKENAZIM had come from a region of known late-lingering NEANDERTHALS, the Caucasus Mountains and the neighboring Russian steppes.
      Some typically “JEWISH” PHY$ICAL TRAIT$ were very OBVIOUSLY vestigial NEANDERTHAL ones…

      Among Ashkenazi “Jews” there is also a genetic tendency toward beaky faces, not only just noses, and big mouths (in more ways than one) that “wrap around” the lower face.

      Barbara Streisand and Julia Roberts provide two lovely and very well known examples of how attractive this genetic trait can be. But these are not “Semitic” physical traits. They are Neanderthal physical characteristics. And maybe some Neanderthal emotional and behavioral traits persisted among the Ashkenazim along with the physical ones.

      Their “chosen people” PRETENSION is a TYPICAL NEANDERTHAL IN-GROUP OBSESSION THAT IS ACTUALLY A GENETIC RACIST PREDISPOSITION AGAINST ALL OTHER HUMANS.

      It is a genetically determined “us against them” mentality. Their higher level of known Neanderthal aggression against outsiders is responsible for their disproportional social influence wherever they have settled in the West. . . .

      The AshkeNAZI JEWS, as a group, EXHIBIT lingering NEANDERTHAL TRAITS most strongly among living Caucasians because of Jewish prohibitions against marriage with outsiders.
      Their Neanderthal genes have been kept “all in the family”, as it were. These Neanderthal genes were not diluted by intermarriage nearly as much as with most other Caucasians.

      According to Bradley, the Neanderthal heritage of modern-day Jewish people explains much about their ongoing problems with not only the native people of Palestine but with other people on the planet. He writes:
      This unfortunate combination of high aggression combined with a tendency toward emotional instability and hysteria when they feel nervous or threatened… which is all the time when they are not in absolute control. And they are arrogant, but uneasy, even then.
      An ethnic symptom of this emotional instability is the Jewish tendency toward hypochondria. Even they cannot control death. This unfortunate combination of high aggression combined with a tendency toward hysteria and emotional instability has proved to be a dangerous and tragic situation over the course of Western history.
      Their aggression encourages continual Jewish attempts to control societies, while the emotional instability makes it difficult for most Jews to distinguish reasonably between justified social criticism by their non-Jewish neighbors and attacks.
      Insensitive even to objective concerns about inordinate Jewish influence in societies, and reacting with hysterical aggression to any such supposed “attack” on their behavior and pleas from non-Jews to limit it, Jews have always provoked violence against themselves. And then they, with much emotional satisfaction, feel victimized and attribute the situation to innate “anti-Semitism” among their neighbors.
      On his website, in an essay entitled “A frightening publication history of Jewish media suppression”, Bradley explores the amazingly negative reaction against his writings and the determined efforts to discredit his work.

      _________________________________________

      Endnote: On the SEXUAL PROCLIVITIES of JEWS

      by Lasha Darkmoon

      This is related tangentially to the above article. It poses the question: are the Jews’ Neanderthal genes, which account for their double-than-average rate of aggression, also responsible for their high libido and sexual hyperactivity?
      It has always been an “antisemitic canard”, or perception among anti-Semites, that Jews are given to excessive amounts of lechery compared to non-Jews. The “Jew as Lecher” featured frequently in Nazi Germany Der Stürmer cartoons showing the Jew lusting after young Aryan women. When the Jews took over Weimar Germany, they flooded the country with pornography and made it the most sexually decadent country in Europe. Today, Jews dominate the world porn industry and produce roughly 90 percent of American porn in the San Fernando Valley, California. (See here)
      Again, the Talmud’s obsession with sex is well-known. I have dealt with this subject in great detail in my article, Secret Sex Life of the Jews. Amazingly, the Talmud has to be the only religious text in the world to discuss and compare the penis size of its most venerated sages. (See The Passionate Talmud, Introduction, p. 1).

      The JEWISH APPETITE FOR non-Jewish women, especially BLONDES, is apparently insatiable. All these appear to be NEANDERTHAL CHARACTERISTICS — a huge libido, excessive testosterone, SEETHING AGGRESSION— with the hairy Neanderthal-type male lusting darkly after the Cro-Magnon type female with her regular features and honeyblond flesh.
      “I have not yet met a Jewish guy who wasn’t a horny rabbit,” porn star Nina Hartley once revealed.
      Nina should know, being Jewish herself — and having kicked up her heels for endless legions of LECHEROUS JEWS during her lubricious life time.
      Here is Jewish novelist Philip Roth, who would undoubtedly have Neanderthal genes, going into raptures over the physical charms of Cro-Magnon woman. This is his hymn to the Aryan Blond Goddess from Portnoy’s Complaint:
      “But the shiksas, ah, the shiksas are something else…. I am so awed that I am in a state of desire beyond a hard-on. My circumcised little dong is simply shriveled up with veneration…. How do they get so gorgeous, so healthy, so blond?”

      THE LUST OF NEANDERTHAL MAN FOR CRO-MAGNON WOMAN

      https://www.darkmoon.me/2014/they-are-not-like-us-by-jack-harper/

    • Jango

      My ancestors were Adam and Eve. How about you? http://www.itshisstory.com

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