At 03:40 PM 11/16/2006, drsyme@cablespeed.com wrote:
>Have you heard about this anyone? They have
>sequenced part of Neanderthal DNA!
>
>So far some of the conclusions; they have 99.5%
>similarity to the human genome, and they claim
>there was no interbreeding between modern homo sapiens and neanderthals.
>
>I wonder if they have sequenced the foxp2 gene
>yet? This might give us some insight into
>whether or not they had spoken language.
>
>http://www.world-science.net/othernews/061115_neanderthal.htm
@ I don't think so, based on what is written below. ~ Janice
"...The mtDNA Dr Paabo sequenced suggested humans
split from Neanderthals about 500,000 years ago -
which fits neatly with the fossil record. It also
suggested Neanderthals did not interbreed with
our ancestors. Dr Paabo's team have selected two
Neanderthal specimens to work on based on the
fact both have "clean" DNA that is relatively
uncontaminated. One is a 38,000-year-old fossil
from Vindija, Croatia. The other is the original
specimen, which, despite being extensively
handled, has unusually clean DNA in its right upper arm bone. .......
They have so far sequenced about a million base
pairs of nuclear DNA from the Croatian fossil and
hope to publish a draft of the whole genome in two years.
"It is definitely possible to sequence the entire
genome from such well-preserved specimens," said
Dr Eske Willerslev, an expert in ancient DNA at
the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. "Perhaps
the biggest difficulty will be verifying the
sequences obtained are genuinely from the
Neanderthal genome and not a contaminant - as so
much of it will be identical to the human genome."
The genome is sure to fuel the particularly
intense controversy that has surrounded a
much-vaunted aspect of human uniqueness - language.
"There's been a debate going for more than 30
years about the speech capabilities of
Neanderthals," says Dr Philip Lieberman, a
cognitive scientist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
"It's clear from the fossil record and
comparisons with modern humans that Neanderthals could speak."
But the prospect of the genome providing the
blueprint for resurrecting a living
"Jurassic-Park-style" Neanderthal is unlikely.
Dr Paabo said: "We would be able to create a
physical Neanderthal genome but we will not be
able to recreate a Neanderthal - even if we wanted to." ~
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Scientists are reconstructing the genome of
Neanderthals - the close relations of modern man.
The ambitious project involves isolating genetic
fragments from fossils of the prehistoric beings
who originally inhabited Europe to map their
complete DNA. The Neanderthal people were
believed to have died out about 35,000 years ago
- at a time when modern humans were advancing
across the continent. Lead researcher Dr Svante
Paabo, an evolutionary geneticist at the Max
Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in
Leipzig, Germany, said: "This would be the first
time we have sequenced the entire genome of an
extinct organism." But the prospect... ...
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York Times ^ | July 20, 2006 | Nicholas Wade
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Biology in Leipzig, Germany, plan to
reconstruct the genome of Neanderthals, the
archaic human species that occupied Europe from
300,000 years ago until 30,000 years ago until
being displaced by modern humans. The genome will
initially be reconstructed using DNA extracted
from Neanderthal bones that are 45,000 years old,
which were found in Croatia, though bones from
other sites may be analyzed later. The project is
a collaboration between Dr. Svante Paabo of the
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and 454 Life
Sciences, a Connecticut company that has... ...
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BERLIN U.S. and German scientists have launched
a two-year project to decipher the genetic code
of the Neanderthal, a feat they hope will help
deepen understanding of how modern humans' brains
evolved. Neanderthals were a species that lived
in Europe and western Asia from more than 200,000
years ago to about 30,000 years ago. Scientists
from Germany's Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology are teaming up a
company in Connecticut to map the genome, or
humans' DNA code. “The Neanderthal is the closest
relative to the modern human, and we believe that
by sequencing the Neanderthal we can learn...
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Scientists Sequence Neanderthal Genome For First
Time Biochemist predicts that nuclear DNA
sequences will show Neanderthals did not evolve
into modern humans NEWS ADVISORY, June 01, 2006,
/Christian Wire Service/ - - At the Biology of
Genomes meeting held recently at New York's Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory, scientific teams from
the Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany and the Joint
Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California
reported on the first-ever Neanderthal nuclear
DNA sequences. These researchers sequenced about
1 million base pairs, or genetic letters, of the
Neanderthal genome for a 45,000-year-old male specimen recovered from the...
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Neanderthal yields nuclear DNA Neanderthals died
out about 29,000 years ago The first sequences of
nuclear DNA to be taken from a Neanderthal have
been reported at a US science meeting. Geneticist
Svante Paabo and his team say they isolated the
long segments of genetic material from a
45,000-year-old Neanderthal fossil from Croatia.
The work should reveal how closely related the
Neanderthal species was to modern humans, Homo
sapiens. Details were presented at a conference
at New York's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and
reported by News@Nature. It is a significant
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<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus//^http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1722109.htm>Australian
Broadcasting Corporation ^ | Wednesday, 23 August
2006 | Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
People of European descent may be 5% Neanderthal,
according to a DNA study that counters the view
that modern humans left Africa and replaced all
other existing hominids. The same study,
published in the latest issue of the journal PloS
Genetics, also says West Africans could be
related to an archaic human population...
"Instead of a population that left Africa 100,000
years ago and replaced all other archaic human
groups, we propose that this population
interacted with another population that had been
in Europe for much longer, maybe 400,000 years,"
says Vincent Plagnol... Using statistics and
computer modelling, the researchers...
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