Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 09, 2021

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    Tyge  over 3 years ago

    Neanderthal women! (snort, pant, wheeze)

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    Ahuehuete  over 3 years ago

    Spoken like a true Neanderthal, Janis!

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    Da'Dad  over 3 years ago

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

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    nosirrom  over 3 years ago

    Introgression Introspection! Did Neanderthal genes make us smarter?

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

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    wjones  over 3 years ago

    Is this proven by checking DNA?

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    Boots at the Boar Premium Member over 3 years ago

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

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    whahoppened  over 3 years ago
    JANIS! You were doing so well there!
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    Charliegirl Premium Member over 3 years ago

    You got it, Janis!

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    landyk  over 3 years ago

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

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    Auntie Socialist  over 3 years ago

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

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    Màiri  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    pathamil  over 3 years ago

    [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

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    prabbit237  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    Michael G.  over 3 years ago

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

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    Beaker  over 3 years ago

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

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    david_42  over 3 years ago

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

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    Jimmyk939  over 3 years ago

    Uh oh, the secret is out.

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    ScullyUFO  over 3 years ago

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

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    trainnut1956  over 3 years ago

    That Neanderthal theory would explain the NFL.

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    Going Nuts  over 3 years ago

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

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    DawnQuinn1  over 3 years ago

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

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    rugeirn  over 3 years ago
    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.
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    axe-grinder  over 3 years ago

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

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Just men…no women?

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    Mario500  over 3 years ago

    “MEN!”?

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    MeGoNow Premium Member over 3 years ago

    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.

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    ChessPirate  over 3 years ago

    Yup, gotta be the man’s fault… (◔_◔)

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    Tom_Tildrum  over 3 years ago

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

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    Sir Isaac  over 3 years ago

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

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    formathe  over 3 years ago

    I can’t say she’s wrong.

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    1504jarvis  over 3 years ago

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

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    annexed  over 3 years ago

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

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    junkforsarah77  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    flagmichael  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    alexius23  over 3 years ago

    Of course, women would never interbreed….sigh

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    khjalmarj  over 3 years ago

    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?

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    eolan59  over 3 years ago

    Maybe it was the women who started it

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    Homerville Premium Member over 3 years ago

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

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    squireobrien  over 3 years ago

    I suspect it was not just men.

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    jonesbeltone  over 3 years ago

    I know a lot of half Orc’s.

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    paranormal  over 3 years ago

    The Neanderthals are all at the gym…

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    jarvisloop  over 3 years ago

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

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    cryptoengineer  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    DCBakerEsq  over 3 years ago

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

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 3 years ago

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

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    kathybear  over 3 years ago

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

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    seismic-2 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    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.)

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    JP Steve Premium Member over 3 years ago

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

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    vishooter  over 3 years ago

    It takes two to tangle, Janis.

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    WF11  over 3 years ago

    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!

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    unca jim  over 3 years ago

    …….Said the guardian of “The Egg..”

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    oakie817  over 3 years ago

    right?

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    jarvisloop  over 3 years ago

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

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    Back to Big Mike  over 3 years ago

    Well, the women had to choose them.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 3 years ago

    Hey, a hot babe is a hot babe…

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 3 years ago

    There are still plenty of Neanderthals around…

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    Darryl Heine  over 3 years ago

    Tell that to Alley Oop!

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    tomfromthe50s  6 months ago

    Some women actually prefer big, hulky men!

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