Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 09, 2021

Neanderthal women! (snort, pant, wheeze)

Spoken like a true Neanderthal, Janis!

I prefer JRR Tolkien’s take on it. There is a little Hobbit in us all.

Introgression Introspection! Did Neanderthal genes make us smarter?

https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2019.00104

Is this proven by checking DNA?

STD’s can be traced back to animal sources. Men indeed!

JANIS! You were doing so well there!

You got it, Janis!

Am I to believe that a lonely human woman couldn’t have had her way with a knuckle dragger?

The Neanderthals were based on one specimen who turned out to have been deformed

It would be nice if we could finally abandon our self-centered parochialism. The Neandertal people should properly be, and by some scientists are, called h.sap.neandertalensis not h.neandertalensis: they are humans, just a slightly different subspecies.

[Spoken}

“What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time

When the only people that existed were troglodytes…cave men…

Cave women…Neanderthal…troglodytes…"

The Jimmy Castor Bunch – Troglodytes

Actually, Neanderthal didn’t look that much different from Homo Sapiens. We’re talking about “doberman vs bulldog” (or maybe “doberman vs wolf”) differences and not “doberman vs panther” or “eagle vs hawk” differences.

After you’ve interbred? Janis, Janis, Janis.

Could be true. I always had a thing for Wilma Flintstone.

I Like ’em Big and Stupid – Julie Brown, Apologizes to the Neanderthals.

Uh oh, the secret is out.

OK. So where did the “modern humans” come from?

That Neanderthal theory would explain the NFL.

So Arlo is quietly sitting watching Andy Griffith reruns, and without saying a word ends up in the doghouse. Women….!

It takes two to have real sex. If they interbred..then the female is just as guilty

Based on the behavior of people today, I have no doubt that the process of homo sapiens and homo neanderthalensis checking each other out and deciding, “Hey, that one’s hot!” happened across all four corners of the matrix. if there’s anything at all that we know about human beings, it’s that we human beings will f**k anything that moves sooner or later—and even things that don’t move.

I’d think it was the modern human ladies who were inexplicably drawn to the “bad-boy” Neanderthals, based on the couples I see.

Just men…no women?

“MEN!”?

Most of the still sparse evidence suggests that it was mostly modern human men mating Neanderthal and Denisovan women. The Neanderthals got their revenge. They gave humans their deadliest form of HPV.

Yup, gotta be the man’s fault… (◔_◔)

I get what Janis is thinking, but honestly, the idea that they didn’t simply die out seems more positive.

This was a “laugh out loud” one for me. Happens about once a week if I’m lucky.

I can’t say she’s wrong.

I graduated from an all boys high school. There were a lot of Neanderthals in my class.

arloandjanis.com no longer works for me. It says “click here” and when I do so, nothing happens. Help!

Does anyone know where the arloandjanis.com page went?

When I use my old bookmark I get this message, “Hello! if you’re still coming here for the Arlo and Janis home page, you need to go here instead and reset your bookmark when you get there.” When I click on the “go here” link, it takes me back to the exact same page.

I am letting all the “neanderthal-human interbreeding” go on by. The first report of Neanderthal genes in human DNA turned out to be contamination – human genes are everywhere, especially in a “dig.” The following tests took steps to stop that, but the steps were not what I would call rigorous.

At the heart is something we can’t determine from the fragments of DNA that survived in bones 50,000 or more years old: humans, among all the Great Apes, have 23 pairs of chromosomes rather than 24. Our chromosome 2 is essentially chimpanzee chromosomes 11 & 12 fused (at the head, IIRC). If we could determine the number of Neanderthal chromosomes, we could definitively say they were humans. If not, they were not.

An aside: if anybody has as much time as curiosity, trying to get a handle on “Y-Adam” and “mitochondrial Eve” is an interesting journey. Skeletal similarities aside, it is likely humans have only been around for 150,000 years. The alternative is that we became nearly extinct then, but I have biological/mathematical doubts.

Of course, women would never interbreed….sigh

Question: is anyone else having trouble with www.arloandjanis.com? There is a link there that’s supposed to take you to the new page, but it only circles around to the same page. What am I missing?

Maybe it was the women who started it

Janis, aren’t you glad he isn’t hairy and gruff in a neanderthal way?

I suspect it was not just men.

I know a lot of half Orc’s.

The Neanderthals are all at the gym…

This strip reminds me of one of Dennis Hopper’s lines in “Blue Velvet.”

If you get the 23andMe DNA test, one of the stats is how much Neanderthal DNA you have. I turned out to have a little under 3%, which put me in the top 1% of their customers.

After a few beers, even Neanderthal babes don’t look so bad. So I’ve heard.

In fact the Homo sapiens men kept knocking up Neanderthal women the Neanderthal men lost out.

I’m not naming names, but one congressperson seems to act and look like a Neanderthal, too!

So before the Neanderthals died out, they did some interbreeding with modern humans. And I suppose that in a couple of centuries hence, as modern humans are nearing extinction, we shall be interbreeding with the robots who will replace us. (Once you go android, you never go back.)

So humans share 3-4% Neanderthal DNA and 98% Chimpanzee DNA? I think somebody’s juggling the books…

It takes two to tangle, Janis.

Ah, Janis is wrong. I distinctly remember in a comic book I had (1950’s) about prehistoric animals and primitive humans where it said that the Neanderthal women were ugly so instead of keeping them as “wives”, the Cro-Magnons simply ate them along with all the others they cannibalized! It didn’t say a word about the males nailing anything that moved.

I don’t know if Janis is “blaming” the Neanderthal males or the “anatomically modern human” (current terminology I believe) males here, but whether any cross-breeding was through the Neanderthal males or the females, it seems it was a slightly successful survival strategy: the Neanderthals have become extinct but a small amount of their genetic material lives on!

…….Said the guardian of “The Egg..”

right?

Interesting. No “Clan of the Cave Bear” references.

Well, the women had to choose them.

Hey, a hot babe is a hot babe…

There are still plenty of Neanderthals around…

Tell that to Alley Oop!