[_ Old Earth _] Radioisotope Dating Seriously Flawed

[Barbarian]

"The Neanderthals are not totally extinct," said Svante Pääbo, a geneticist at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. "In some of us they live on, a little bit."

A tiny bit of genetic variation in humans turns out to be from a different species. That's not unusual in mammals.

Many species, under odd circumstances, will interbreed. But the fact that H. sapiens and H. neandertalis lived for thousands of years in the same area, and showed no interbreeding at all,(Mt. Carmel area in Israel) suggests that some sort of reproductive isolation was in place.

 

[Crying Rock]

Barb:

Many species, under odd circumstances, will interbreed. But the fact that H. sapiens and H. neandertalis lived for thousands of years in the same area, and showed no interbreeding at all,(Mt. Carmel area in Israel) suggests that some sort of reproductive isolation was in place.

CR cites:

...That suggests that some interbreeding took place after early humans spread out from Africa, most likely in the Middle East 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, Pääbo and his colleagues said...

 

[Barbarian]

I would be pleased to see your evidence that there was breeding between the two species in the area. I know of one possible example, in Spain, where it seems a H. sapiens/H. neandertalis hybrid was found. But as the article on Neandertal DNA said, it seems to have not been very common; neandertals left very little of their DNA in H. sapiens populations.

 

[Crying Rock]

...I would be pleased to see your evidence that there was breeding between the two species in the area....

"...Archaic humans such as Neanderthals may be gone but they're not forgotten — at least not in the human genome. A genetic analysis of nearly 2,000 people from around the world indicates that such extinct species interbred with the ancestors of modern humans twice, leaving their genes within the DNA of people today.

Using projected rates of genetic mutation and data from the fossil record, the researchers suggest that the interbreeding happened about 60,000 years ago in the eastern Mediterranean and, more recently, about 45,000 years ago in eastern Asia. Those two events happened after the first H. sapiens had migrated out of Africa, says Long. His group didn't find evidence of interbreeding in the genomes of the modern African people included in the study.

The researchers suggest that the population from the first interbreeding went on to migrate to Europe, Asia and North America. Then the second interbreeding with an archaic population in eastern Asia further altered the genetic makeup of people in Oceania..."

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100420/ ... 0.194.html

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome
Green et al.
Science 7 May 2010:
Vol. 328. no. 5979, pp. 710 - 722
DOI: 10.1126/science.1188021

Your source:

...Genetic sequences from the three non-African modern individuals (from Papua New Guinea, China and France) were statistically more likely to be similar to Neanderthals than the sequences from southern Africa and West Africa. That suggests that some interbreeding took place after early humans spread out from Africa, most likely in the Middle East 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, Pääbo and his colleagues said...

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... some-of-us

Mode of occupation of Tabun cave, Mt Carmel, Israel during the Mousterian period : A study of the sediments and phytoliths

Alternative modes of occupation of Tabun Cave during the deposition of the Mousterian Levels B and C have been proposed.

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2023962

http://bcrfj.revues.org/image.php?sourc ... itlepos=up

 

[Barbarian]

Mode of occupation of Tabun cave, Mt Carmel, Israel during the Mousterian period : A study of the sediments and phytoliths

Alternative modes of occupation of Tabun Cave during the deposition of the Mousterian Levels B and C have been proposed.

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2023962

http://bcrfj.revues.org/image.php?sourc ... itlepos=up

These are the only two that address the area in question, and they say nothing at all about interbreeding. Did you link to a wrong site by mistake?