Archaeologists have unearthed the 5,000-year-old remas of what they believe may have been the world's olst known gay veman.
Contents:
- EARLY HUMANS MATED NEANRTHALS, HAD GAY MARRIAGE
- THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN
- WERE THERE GAY NEANRTHALS?
- THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
EARLY HUMANS MATED NEANRTHALS, HAD GAY MARRIAGE
* gay neanderthal *
"Far more likely is that he was a man wh a different sexual orientatn, homosexual or transsexual, " she add. "But this later disvery was neher of those, leadg to believe the man was probably homosexual or transsexual, " Semeradova said.
THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN
Neanrthals (left) and Homo sapiens (right) are the clost relativ of each other, and uld terbreed.
A new paper propos that Homo sapiens may have been rponsible for the extctn of Neanrthals not by vlence, but through sex stead. Though only 32 Neanrthal genom have been sequenced to date, leavg possible that the lack of Homo sapiens DNA their genome is actually a quirk of samplg, the thors hope advanc DNA sequencg technology will be able to rolve this hypothis by makg more genom available.
WERE THERE GAY NEANRTHALS?
Chris says, "Our knowledge of the teractn between Homo sapiens and Neanrthals has got more plex the last few years, but 's still rare to see scientific discsn of how the terbreedg between the groups actually happened.
"We propose that this behavr uld have led to the Neanrthals' extctn if they were regularly breedg wh Homo sapiens, which uld have erod their populatn until they disappeared. The first enunters of Neanrthals and Homo sapiens. Neanrthals and Homo sapiens diverged om each other around 600, 000 years ago and evolved very different areas of the world.
THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
It is currently uncerta whether Homo sapiens are the direct scendants of one group of ancient Ain homs or are the rult of mixg between different groups spread across the ntent.