While still in rough draft form, the Neandertal genome sequence project is already making important discoveries. Right now, it seems to mostly involve what's not there... i.e., no "smoking gun" clearly pointing to interbreeding. The project is expected to take several more years before a complete sequencing is finished.
Not to be pedantic, but:
Actually, it's spelled Neanderthal, but it's pronounced "Knee-Ander-Tal" since "Th" is prounounced like "T" in German.
Posted by: Mark on December 9, 2008 10:05 PM