Not the kind that belongs to a club, but the kind with a club that belongs to him…
Entered By: grantb on October 27, 2009
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We all want a primitive man, says the Telegraph, reporting on new evidence that modern humans got it on with Neanderthals:
[Said Professor Paabo, who is director of genetics at the renowned Max Planck Institution for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig:] “I’m sure that they had sex, but did it give offspring that contributed to us? We will be able to answer quite vigorously with the new [Neanderthal genome] sequence.”
…In recent years, fossils with both Neanderthal and modern human features have been found suggesting the two species interbred but previous scans of Neanderthal genes reveal Neanderthal DNA to have a very different make-up to modern man’s.
Tags: anthropology, genetics
