Neanderthal genome to be unveiled »
Posted By altnrg 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyThe entire genome of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal has been sequenced by a team of scientists in Germany. The group is already extracting DNA from other ancient Neanderthal bones and hopes that the genomes will allow an unprecedented comparison between modern humans and their closest evolutionary relative.
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CRYMTYPHON9 months, 3 weeks ago
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I don't think they would do it that way, Crespi.
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But they might get a human volunteer to have a neanderthal child;
and observe him as he grew.
And the kid would grow up wondering why he was diferent;
and why the world didn't feel like it fit sometimes;
and wondering if he was paranoid for imagining people were watching all the time.
Actualy, put that way most of us could be genetic experiments.
Perhaps we are. -
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Tangent0019 months, 3 weeks ago
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No worries. The technology to do this is at least decades away. The sequence is just that: a list of the ordered paired Cs, As, Gs, and Ts. It was assembled using bits and pieces of degraded DNA. There are no actual complete Neanderthal DNA chains.
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Tangent0019 months, 3 weeks ago
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National Geographic did a story on a model of a Neanderthal recently constructed based on known bone structure. There is still much speculation as to what caused their final downfall, but it may have simply been slow starvation. It is estimated Neanderthals required over 5000 calories per day, compared to Cro Magnon's 2000. Neanderthals may have been directly responsible for hunting many species into extinction.
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Tangent0019 months, 3 weeks ago
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Here is the link to the NG story:
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http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/neandert...
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