Category: Neandertal genomics
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Neanderthal admixture & the ecology of academe
Yesterday I pointed out that David Reich had a moderately dismissive attitude toward the new paper in PNAS, Effect of ancient population structure on the degree of polymorphism shared between modern human populations and ancient hominins. Here’s …
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Is resurrecting Neandertals unethical?
An interview with paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer: This raises one more question: Could we ever clone these extinct people? Science is moving on so fast. The first bit of Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA was recovered in 1997. No one then could have be…