There is a new study out on Neanderthal DNA. This one is from Russia.
Apparently the DNA was quite similar to the mtDNA isolated from the
Feldhofer specimen in 1997.(There is a bit of reading between the lines of
the report. Such similarity would say that there were probably very few
Neanderthals. The DNA is also said to be different from modern humans and
thus, they draw the conclusion that Neanderthals didn't interbreed with
modern humans. If there are few of them, then they might have interbred but
due to swamping, their genes didn't survive til today. The report can be
found at:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000328/sc/neanderthal_study_1.html
ONe puzzling thing about this report. It says that the results are published
in Nature. I just got off the Nature site and could not find it. Maybe it
is next week's issue but it definitely isn't on this weeks table of
contents.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
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