November 15, 2006
More Neanderthal Gene News

BBCnews is carrying this report chronicling the latest progress on Neanderthal DNA research. By using a different sequencing technique, scientists have partially reconstructed significant portions of nuclear DNA. This promises to provide much more information about the species than the previously sequenced Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA. However, unlike the recent suggestions of evidence for gene exchange from Neanderthals to modern humans, this team finds no such evidence in their studies. In fact, quite the opposite, as this preliminary findings seem to be pointing toward a human to Neanderthal exchange.

Posted by scott at November 15, 2006 02:21 PM

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