Obviously, these people never met my old boss !
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From: "Leslie Allen Crnkovic" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 7:04 PM
Subject: [CONCH-L] Two species becoming one
> Andrew... Neanderthal is not mergent with Humans but a divergent dead-end
> hominid line. Les
>
> "Latest Genetic Evidence Indicates No Interbreeding between Neanderthals &
> Humans" (Science, 18 May 2007, p 967)
> 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. ... In a sharp contrast to the evolutionary scenario
> proposed
> by University of Chicago researchers. Through a direct analysis of the
> nuclear DNA sequences of the Neanderthal genome, researchers from Harvard
> University and the National Human Genome Research Institute conclusively
> discovered no indication whatsoever that humans and Neanderthals
> interbred.
> Analysis of human and Neanderthal Y-chromosome sequences by researchers
> from
> the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig,
> Germany,
> produced no evidence for gene flow between humans and Neanderthals.
> Earlier
> studies of Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA yielded a similar conclusion as
> well. Direct comparisons between Neanderthal DNA indicate that these two
> species did not interbreed.
>
> OTHER REFs:
> Matthias Krings et al., "Neanderthal DNA Sequences and the Origin of
> Modern
> Humans," Cell 90 (1997): 19-30;
> Matthias Krings et al., "DNA Sequence of the Mitochondrial Hypervariable
> Region II from the Neanderthal Type Specimen," Proceedings of the National
> Academy of Sciences, USA 96 (1999): 5581-85;
> Igor V. Ovchinnikov et al., "Molecular Analysis of Neanderthal DNA from
> the
> Northern Caucasus," Nature 404 (2000): 490-93;
> Matthias Krings et al., "A View of Neanderthal Genetic Diversity," Nature
> Genetics 26 (2000): 144-46.
> Ralf W. Schmitz et al., "The Neanderthal Type Site Revisited:
> Interdisciplinary Investigations of Skeletal Remains from the Neander
> Valley, Germany," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99
> (2002): 13342-47.
>
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