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Le Show For The Week Of December 15, 2024

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Sports, News, Tech News, Music, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us regular features like News of A.I., News of NiceCorps, News of Crypto-Winter, News of the Godly, and The Apologies of the Week. He also discusses the physical (and romantic?) relationship between modern humans and neanderthals, and then later gets a call from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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Ladies and gentlemen, one of the things I'd like to do in this program is cover the stories that aren't covered elsewhere.

0:16.0

There's so much repetition. I said there's so much repetition in today's media. What do you think?

0:23.3

Why do you think Donald Trump won the election? Because he was running against a woman.

0:30.2

And end of story. Now a story that is not being covered by most media. It is in the Washington Post, but, you know,

0:42.0

they have their own problems. A pair of new studies reveals that modern humans and Neanderthals

0:48.5

had babies together for an extended period.

1:01.5

I would think it would be nine months, but speaking 47,000 years ago, and that left genetic fingerprints in modern day people.

1:04.1

Every once in a while, this story gains new legs, the humans and Neanderthal stories. And this is the latest version of it. Scientists

1:14.1

have long known that Neanderthals and humans had offspring and that among them were our ancestors.

1:21.2

Is that, does ancestry, it's 23 and me today, people from around the world who are descended

1:27.1

from the group of humans that left Africa and successfully settled Eurasia still contain a vestige of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes.

1:36.3

That new result published this week in the journal's science and nature don't change our understanding of this period. They enwrench it with

1:46.7

complexities and new details. One group of scientists analyzed genomes from 275 present-day

1:53.6

and 59. Prehistoric humans. Hello, prehistoric humans who lived between 2200 and 45,000 years ago.

2:03.7

The scientists looked for segments of Neanderthal DNA, tried to estimate when they entered the human genome.

2:10.5

They report in science that Neanderthals and humans interbred for 7,000 years, starting about 50,500 years ago.

2:23.2

That's what I call love.

2:25.6

A second group of researchers disclosed in nature a new line of evidence by sequencing

2:30.3

the oldest human genomes yet, bringing to life a 45,000-year-old human family.

2:36.7

That included a mother and a baby, whose Neanderthal ancestry traced to 80 generations earlier.

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