Scientists Mapping Neanderthal Genome

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2006/nov/15/111500659.html

NEW YORK (AP) - A bone fragment that scientists had initially ignored has begun to yield secrets of the Neanderthal genome, launching a new way to learn about the stocky and muscular relative of modern humans, scientists say.

Genetic material from the bone has let researchers identify more than a million building blocks of Neanderthal DNA so far, and it should be enough to derive most of the creature's 3.3 billion blocks within the next two years, said researcher Svante Paabo.

"We're at the dawn of Neanderthal genomics," said gene expert Edward Rubin of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.

Such research will "serve as a DNA time machine that will tell us about the biology and aspects of Neanderthals that we could never get" otherwise, Rubin said.

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[Glorfindel]

1. Cool...that's worthwhile science

Maybe now we'll find out if the Neandertals were a dead-end or if modern humans are related.

[Tesha]

9. Three words: "George W. Bush"

> Maybe now we'll find out if the Neandertals were a dead-end
> or if modern humans are related.

With apologies to the guy in the GEICO commercials, three words:

"George W. Bush"

Tesha

[Botany]

2. They do need studied

[Bonobo]

4. Yens is from Pittsburgh, huh?

[BushOut06]

3. How did they get ahold of Bush's DNA? - n/t

*nm

[trotsky]

5. I can't wait to find out if they can determine...

whether we bred with or killed Neanderthals to extinction.

[xchrom]

6. i dated neanderthal brothers.

it was dark in that bar -- and i was drunk.

[sui generis]

7. why don't they just use a republican?

except for the parts that have been eaten away by sizzling bile, hatred and bitterness they have practically the entire genome at their disposal, living, walking, talking, breathing, shitting, blogging republicans everywhere.

:shrug: just a thought.

[adadem]

8. Too funny

but true
:rofl: