In a significant advance, the researchers mapped most of the Neanderthal genome—the first time that the heredity of such an ancient human species has been reliably reconstructed. The researchers, able for the first time to compare the relatively complete genetic coding of modern and prehistoric human species, found the Neanderthal legacy accounts for up to 4% of the human genome among people in much of the world today.What a fascinating story. I love these sorts of discoveries. It's exciting. So does this mean we all have to reread The Clan of the Cave Bear? Pleeeeeease don't make me!
Friday, May 7, 2010
I'm Part Neanderthal? How Exciting!
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This is not a surprise to anyone who has seen dear Mark Messier's brow ridge.
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*snicker*
ReplyDelete"The researchers... found the Neanderthal legacy accounts for up to 4% of the human genome among people in much of the world today."
ReplyDeleteAbout 96% of which live 15 minutes from my house in the North Georgia Mountains. Once again, science telling us what we knew all along.
Never read Clan Of The Cave Bear by the way, but did (sob) see most of the movie.
This was one of my old anthro teacher's big preachings, to which he attributed big Celtic "pumpkin heads" like unto his own. It made a lot more sense than his IRA theories, so I wish he'd stuck with studying cavemen.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I'm glad he's got some proof for that one, 'cause the IRA ones sure didn't work out.