Thursday, May 6, 2010

We Knew It All Along

Most People Carry Neanderthal DNA
Scientists have wrapped up a comparative study of human and Neanderthal genomes, and they've found that as much as 4 percent of most people's DNA can be traced back to the "big-brained and barrel-chested group."
Read original story in Wall Street Journal | Thursday, May 6, 2010


Smut Up-Date (Via comments):

Neanderthals may have interbred with humans

Who could imagine?

3 comments:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Read original story in Wall Street Journal.

Haha!
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Smut Clyde said...

From a couple of weeks ago, an independent approach -- looking at genetic diversity within living humans rather than mucking around with Neandertal bones -- reached the same conclusion.

Someone even mentioned it on Sadly,No!

M. Bouffant said...

Primatology Ed. Confirms:

We were going to abuse a close personal acquaintance who is stocky, barrel-chested & has a fine set of brow ridges ("Two Words: [Redacted] [Redacted]") but there are no pix available that do justice to him as a Neanderthal, so he's off the hook as empirical/photographic proof; we don't need no fancy genomes to know there was cousin sex going on.