{"id":11533,"date":"2010-08-11T11:03:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T09:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2264"},"modified":"2010-08-11T11:03:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T09:03:37","slug":"our-neandertal-brethren-genome-sequencing-has-revealed-our-common-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/our-neandertal-brethren-genome-sequencing-has-revealed-our-common-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Neandertal Brethren: Genome sequencing has revealed our common humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n\tI always suspected that Neandertals and anatomically modern humans<br \/>\n\tinterbred, based on a simple observation: humans are the most sexual of<br \/>\n\tall the primates, willing and able to do it just about anywhere,<br \/>\n\tanytime, with anyone (and even with other species if the Kinsey report<br \/>\n\tis to be believed in its findings about farmhands and their animal<br \/>\n\tcharges). Given the viable hybrid offspring that the most diverse<br \/>\n\tmembers of our species have produced as a result of cultural conjoinings<br \/>\n\tthrough both ancient migrations and modern travel, one has to suspect<br \/>\n\tthat close encounters of the corporeal kind occurred not infrequently in<br \/>\n\tthose dark and lonely cave nights over the course of those long-gone<br \/>\n\tmillennia.<\/p>\n<p>\tNow <em>that<\/em> is a tale worthy of a romantic novel, brought to you by science.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelshermer.com\/2010\/08\/our-neandertal-brethren\/\">Link<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always suspected that Neandertals and anatomically modern humans interbred, based on a simple observation: humans are the most sexual of all the primates, willing and able to do it just about anywhere, anytime, with anyone (and even with other species if the Kinsey report is to be believed in its findings about farmhands and &#8230; <a title=\"Our Neandertal Brethren: Genome sequencing has revealed our common humanity\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/our-neandertal-brethren-genome-sequencing-has-revealed-our-common-humanity\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}