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May. 07, 2010
Neanderthal Genome
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| What makes us human? The sequence of the Neanderthal genome has been largely completed -- and we're not all that different from those ancient relatives. Writing this week in the journal Science, researchers compare and contrast the Neanderthal genome with the genomes of present-day humans from different parts of the world. The researchers also found clear evidence of 'gene flow,' evidence of interbreeding between the species. Surprisingly, on a protein level, the researchers found fewer than 100 differences between the human and Neanderthal proteomes. We'll talk about how we're different from -- and similar to -- our Neanderthal relatives. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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Richard "Ed" Green
Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
Baskin School of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California -
Richard Klein
Professor, Anthropology and Biology
Stanford University
Stanford, California
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