"He must, so know the starfish and the student biologist who sits at the feet of living things, proliferate in all
directions. Having certain tendencies, he must move along their lines to the limit of their potentialities."

John Steinbeck - Log from the Sea of Cortez

Thursday, May 6, 2010

So, who's the kid with the prominent brow ridge?

A new study in Science details the results of a draft of the Neanderthal genome, based on DNA extracted from 40,000 year old bones found in Croatia. The results indicate a strong possibility that Homo sapiens may have interbred with Neanderthals after departing Africa, perhaps 80,000 years ago.
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