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Scientists decode Neanderthal genes
Material from 38,000-year-old bone fragment being analyzed
A reconstructed Neanderthal skeleton, right,
and a modern version of a *advertiser censored* sapiens skeleton
are on display at the Museaum of Natural History.
Humans and their close Neanderthal relatives began diverging from a common ancestor about 700,000 years ago, and the two groups split permanently some 300,000 years later, according to two of the most detailed analyses of Neanderthal DNA to date.
Using different techniques, two teams of scientists separately sequenced large chunks of DNA extracted from the femur of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal specimen found in a cave 26 years ago in Croatia. One team sequenced more than 1 million base pairs of the 3.3-billion-pair genome, and the other analyzed 65,000 pairs.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15732243/?GT1=8717
Material from 38,000-year-old bone fragment being analyzed
A reconstructed Neanderthal skeleton, right,
and a modern version of a *advertiser censored* sapiens skeleton
are on display at the Museaum of Natural History.
Humans and their close Neanderthal relatives began diverging from a common ancestor about 700,000 years ago, and the two groups split permanently some 300,000 years later, according to two of the most detailed analyses of Neanderthal DNA to date.
Using different techniques, two teams of scientists separately sequenced large chunks of DNA extracted from the femur of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal specimen found in a cave 26 years ago in Croatia. One team sequenced more than 1 million base pairs of the 3.3-billion-pair genome, and the other analyzed 65,000 pairs.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15732243/?GT1=8717
