{"id":42605,"date":"2011-07-18T14:27:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T22:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12951"},"modified":"2011-07-18T14:27:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T22:27:15","slug":"neanderthal-human-mating-months-later%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/18\/neanderthal-human-mating-months-later%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"Neanderthal-human mating, months later\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"imgcapleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/07\/Kermanshah_Pal_Museum-Neanderthal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12959\" title=\"Kermanshah_Pal_Museum-Neanderthal\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/07\/Kermanshah_Pal_Museum-Neanderthal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Image credit:<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AKermanshah_Pal_Museum-Neanderthal.jpg\">ICHTO<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recently something popped up into my Google news feed in regards to &#8220;Neanderthal-human mating.&#8221; If you are a regular reader you know that I&#8217;m wild for this particular combination of the &#8220;wild thing.&#8221; But a quick perusal of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2011-07\/uom-grc071411.php\">press release<\/a> told me that this was a paper <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/01\/neandertal-admixture-revisiting-results-after-shaken-priors\/\">I had already reviewed when it was published online in <em>January<\/em><\/a>. I even used the results in the paper to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/01\/neandertal-haplotype-in-the-family\/\">confirm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/02\/my-familys-neandertal-genes-ii\/\">Neanderthal admixture<\/a> in my own family (we&#8217;ve all been genotyped). One of my siblings is in fact a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zygosity#Hemizygous\">hemizygote<\/a> for the Neanderthal alleles on the locus in question! <strong>I guess it shows the power of press releases upon the media.<\/strong> I would offer up the explanation that this just shows that the more respectable press doesn&#8217;t want to touch papers which aren&#8217;t in print, but that&#8217;s not a good explanation when they are willing to hype up stuff which is presented at conferences at even an earlier stage.<\/p>\n<p>A second aspect I noted is that except for <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/your-grandmother-was-a-neander\">Ron Bailey<\/a> at <em>Reason<\/em> all <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/story?pz=1&amp;cf=all&amp;ned=us&amp;hl=en&amp;ncl=dVRa_l5t0VnsnDMrgDmdYsx10YUgM\">the articles<\/a> which use a color headshot use a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image credit:ICHTO<br \/>\nRecently something popped up into my Google news feed in regards to &#8220;Neanderthal-human mating.&#8221; If you are a regular reader you know that I&#8217;m wild for this particular combination of the &#8220;wild thing.&#8221; Bu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,9,30,481,332,539,326,929,514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admixture","category-anthroplogy","category-human-evolution","category-human-genetics","category-hybridization","category-introgression","category-neandertal","category-neanderthals","category-paleontology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42605"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42662,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42605\/revisions\/42662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}