Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals?

MCTFB writes, "According to CNN, human beings may have acquired a gene for developing bigger brains from Neanderthal man. Apparently, 70% of the world's population has a variant of a gene regulating brain size, with this variant being most common in people of European descent (where Neanderthal man lived alongside ancient humans), and least common in people of African descent (where Neanderthal man was non-existent). While modern day eugenicists might all too eagerly read into these findings to draw their own politically biased conclusions, people such as myself, who happen to be of northern European ancestry, may find it fascinating that somewhere in our lineage ancient humans and Neanderthals decided to make love and not war on the ancient plains of Eurasia."

No surprise

[Anonymous Coward]

What's so surprising about this result? People will fuck anything and everything.

From Neanderthals? No.

[Shadow Wrought]

From Nerdenthals? Yes.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Were right all along

And they...

[rabryan21]

And the Neanderthals got their big brain from Homo Erectus who traded a mule for it.

Invention of Beer lead to this?

[Anonymous Coward]

You ever seen Neanderthals? I propose that the invention of Beer and thus Beer Goggles would be needed before this interbreeding occured!

love and not war

[erbbysam]

"decided to make love and not war on the ancient plains of Eurasia" you know how these sorta things start out... they knew each other from somebody else... met at a party and after alot of drinking let there hormones get the best of there barely separated genes and they mixed back together.

doubleplusgood

[User 956]

somewhere in our lineage ancient humans and neanderthals decided to make love and not war on the ancient plains of Eurasia.

Oceania has never been at war with Eurasia. Everyone knows that.

itsatrap?

[Quantam]

What is this, some kind of government sting to catch racists that reply?

Sounds familiar

[Perseid]

Neanderthals, eh? I think I dated one of those once...

No Because we aren't descended from Neanderthals.

[Darthmalt]

Obviously we inherited our brains from those on the B-ark. Which is why we always have such impeccably clean phones.

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[KJSwartz]

Morg like food

Morg need mate

Morg mod WOW

Now Morg happy

Misread

[floki]

I read it as "Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Netherlands?" :-)