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It's interesting that it is the widely believed theory in China, or at least it was often stated to me as fact when I lived there. Seems to stem from the disco
by pringk02 3y ago
It's interesting that it is the widely believed theory in China, or at least it was often stated to me as fact when I lived there.
Seems to stem from the discovery of the Peking Man:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man
- nisegami 3y agoI can absolutely see certain groups refusing to believe their distant ancestors were from Africa and grasping at any alternative explanation.
- dtx1 3y agoI mean my family has lived for at least 300 years in a region close to where the neanderthals were first discovered. I assume I have some of those genes in me
- masklinn 3y agoIIRC every human population (possibly non-African?) has some Neanderthal DNA. I believe Asian and Oceanian groups also have Denisovan DNA.
- adrian_b 3y agoAll the non-African humans have a little Neanderthal DNA, and indeed some groups from East-Asia and Oceania also have a little Denisovan DNA.
- AbrahamParangi 3y agoIndeed, we all do! I don't think there is a single extent human population without some archaic admixture. If you're interested in further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_...
- dudefeliciano 3y agoApparently East Asians have more neanderthal DNA than Europeans so I'm not sure the region of initial discovery really matter that much. Also Neanderthal 1 is 40000 years old, your family may have arrived in the region even a 1000 years ago and be completely unrelated to it.
- nerdponx 3y agoIt works the other way too though. There's a good chance that at some point along those thousand years, somebody had kids with somebody else who had older ancestry in the area, and so on.
- BurningFrog 3y agoThat assumes their family only bred with each other, which I very much hope isn't the case!
- kjkjadksj 3y agoMost europeans do have significant amounts of neandertal DNA, but the likelyhood of your people 300 years ago being in the same place in europe that long ago, even a thousand years ago, is slim. There’s been massive migrations and demographic shifts. The most “ancient” population in Europe I believe are thought to be the Basques.
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- rsynnott 3y agoAs I understand it, it's somewhat encouraged by the government. China's the sort of place where, if the government has a preferred wacky theory, one may be inclined to smile and nod rather than arguing.
- ausudhz 3y agosomewhat similar to the demonization of communism that the west pushed for decades? Apparently there are many people that are more incline to just smile and nod rather than arguing. Probably the geographical location of these is not really important. They're equally distributed across the globe
- joenot443 3y agoThis is a wildly off-base comparison to make, I'd be impressed if your comment stays up for long.
- ausudhz 3y agoI don't understand why people get so emotional when you mention the word communism It was a simple comparison point on the previous comment that, by my standard was also wildly off base (given that he said dumb to a whole country basically) the fact is that the west seems to be so attached (weirdly) to communism despite even those who implemented it already abandoned. Are you scared of ghosts or what?
- nradov 3y ago[flagged]
- JuanPosadas 3y agoThat's nothing compared to the 20 million per year that died under capitalism.