Scientists decode the Neanderthal genome

What I would like to know is who decided what a Neaderthal looks like, the big saucer eyes and rather broad nose.

I think your thinking about a Taxidermist Set. Unless you were joking and it just flew over my head...

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I'm pretty sure Setanta was joking and it just flew over your head. Or maybe you ducked.

They make lousy drivers.

Please try to be more observant. It flew over your head like a 747 taking off.

Neanderthal dna was first extracted from teeth and rib bones in the late 90s. Do google searches on 'neanderthal dna halfway chimpanzee'.

In the late 90's the first part of a neanderthal genome was decoded. It was done by Svante Paabo and Mathias Kring also, along with a team from Penn STate U , led by M Stoneking. (The Penn STate team actually duplicated the Kring and Paabo study so that they could resolve any issues re: contamination). The teams managed to sequence 380 base pairs of mDNA , . The newest study is apperntly still incomplete as theyve gotta finish the mDNA and the nuclear DNA sequencing.

I think the major finding that seems to discount the "Halfway ape" story is that the no 2 chromosome is seen to be the same "fusing" of 2 chromosomes that differentiate Homo from Pan . (we dont have any way of getting any DNA from Australopithecenes )

Thanks for the information, farmerman. Somewhere, I had read that and had forgotten it. Your post reminds me that we can much more easily learn about the past since there is material-bones, rocks, layers of sediment- to learn from whereas when we try to do modeling by putting in parameters in a computer, we are many times making useless predictions about the future, especially if we are attempting to predict climate in the distant future.

Whoa! Did anybody see that jet?

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Re: farmerman (Post 3571191)
Thanks for the information, farmerman. Somewhere, I had read that and had forgotten it. Your post reminds me that we can much more easily learn about the past since there is material-bones, rocks, layers of sediment- to learn from whereas when we try to do modeling by putting in parameters in a computer, we are many times making useless predictions about the future, especially if we are attempting to predict climate in the distant future.