neanderthal

Slashdot reports the following story: (the headline blurb) "Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations Med-trump writes "Neanderthals, whose ancestors left Africa about 400,000 to 800,000 years ago, evolved in what is now mainly France, Spain, Germany and Russia, and are thought to...

Just spotted this interesting news item. Genetics is so cool. :D

http://www.archaeology.org/0611/abstracts/neanderthals.html Cool stuff! I can't wait 'til it's done. Of note, also, IMHO is the picture of a Neanderthal on the cover of the new issue. Definately a step or two away from the stereotype!

cool. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/29/neander29.xml It makes for a great riposte to the anti evolutionists who get aggressive with "are you saying I'm descended from a monkey?" "No, I'm saying we're still monkeys!" don't hassle me about "we're not descended...

I was wondering why exactly we don't attempt to clone the Neanderthal. We have DNA samples and we likely have the ability to clone them. So why not? It would be a great chance to study one of our relatives/ancestors close up in person. A chance to see exactly how intelligent Neanderthals were...

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050706/ap_on_sc/neanderthal_genome;_ylt=Ak3kuxxmymhKu2sf3Ss5X9Os0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MzV0MTdmBHNlYwM3NTM- This is going to be cool! I can't wait to see how it turns out.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/neanderthal000328.html? I can point to several pro wrestlers that refute this.