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Deciphering the DNA Code of Neanderthal Man
smooth wombat writes "U.S. and German scientists have embarked on a two-year long project to map the genetic code of Neanderthal man. Their hope is to gain a greater understanding of how modern human brains evolved. This study comes after last years completion of mapping the DNA of chimpanzees, our closest living relative." From the article: "Over two years, the scientists aim to reconstruct a draft of the 3 billion building blocks of the Neanderthal genome -- working with fossil samples from several individuals. They face the complication of working with 40,000-year-old samples, and of filtering out microbial DNA that contaminated them after death. Only about 5 percent of the DNA in the samples is actually Neanderthal DNA, Egholm estimated, but he and Rothberg said pilot experiments had convinced them that the decoding was feasible."
If I were doing the study, I'd start with living DNA:
Speaking of "For the last time!", will you *please* put your stupid link to your stupid site in your sig, instead of making us read it with every uninformed post you make on every goddamn topic!
I hope those scientists are good at math, unlike whoever made that 2+2=5 slashdot image. Otherwise it'll probably take longer than expected.
Oh shut your cake-hole.
I agree with the gp, for the love of natalie portman, stop it.
No I am not a sockpuppet.