Did someone mention "Cabbage!" ? Alton Brown did a great show on cabbage. He and his food anthropologist discuss the origins of cabbage ... about 2min 15 sec into this video. The entire episode is great IMO.
Hope everyone enjoyed it.
James Sel wrote:Did someone mention "Cabbage!" ? Alton Brown did a great show on cabbage. He and his food anthropologist discuss the origins of cabbage ... about 2min 15 sec into this video. The entire episode is great IMO.
Hope everyone enjoyed it.
A recent landmark genome analysis determined that humans most likely interbred with Neanderthals, and that as much as 4% of the modern human genome seems to be from Neanderthals. A team at the University of Chicago reported that at least one gene, called microcephalin, involved in regulating brain growth (although the gene's precise role is not known), may have passed from the Neanderthal to ours. Analyzing the gene from 89 people from around the world, the scientists discovered that a particular variant of the gene, called haplogroup D, present in 70% of the world's population, appeared in modern humans around 37,000 years ago and seemed to have been favored by natural selection, quickly spreading inside the human populations. The team guessed that, most likely, prehistoric modern humans interbred with a now extinct hominid that carried haplogroup D, most likely Neanderthals.
There's only one problem with this Flintstone fine art theory. New science suggests that humans and Neanderthals were both in Europe at the same time—and like any good backpackers, they were also sharing, ahem, their beds. So without a signature at the bottom, we're not sure who exactly made these paintings.
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