Posted on 05/31/2006 8:02:01 PM PDT by truthfinder9
Scientists Sequence Neanderthal Genome For First Time Biochemist predicts that nuclear DNA sequences will show Neanderthals did not evolve into modern humans
NEWS ADVISORY, June 01, 2006, /Christian Wire Service/ - - 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.
These researchers sequenced about 1 million base pairs, or genetic letters, of the Neanderthal genome for a 45,000-year-old male specimen recovered from the Vindija Cave near Zagreb, Croatia.
"This work is incredible. There is no other way to put it," says biochemist Fazale 'Fuz' Rana, PhD, and author of the Amazon.com best-seller, Who Was Adam?
In Who Was Adam?, a book which examines human origins from a scientific and biblical perspective, Rana and co-author astronomer Hugh Ross present the first scientific model for creation that is fully testable and predictive.
"Our theory maintains that there is no evolutionary connection between Neanderthals and modern humans," states Ross. "If this is the case, then Neanderthals should prove to be genetically distinct from modern humans-precisely why this new research on the nuclear DNA of Neanderthals is so vitally important."
According to Dr. Rana, previous studies of Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA sequences already suggest that the creation model's predictions about Neanderthals are correct.
"The results of Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA analyses are compelling. Still, these DNA sequences constitute a small, specialized fraction of Neanderthal DNA," cautions Rana. "With the Neanderthal genome in hand, we will be able to definitively test the predictions of our creation model."
Even though scientists have only sequenced about 0.03% of the Neanderthal genome, they hope to generate the DNA sequence for most of the Neanderthal genome soon. Dr. Rana is one of many scientists anticipating the future prospects for this research.
"Having the Neanderthal genome will prove invaluable," continues Rana. "These DNA sequences will give us greater]xl33"arity about the identity of Neanderthals and provide an invaluable opportunity to test different theories for humanity's origin."
"My sense is that when the Neanderthal genome is analyzed it will show, once and for all, that Neanderthals did not evolve into modern humans," predicts Rana.
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Gene sequencing gooooooooooood!
The thing which is not obvious from the skull and which nobody might suspect if all they had was bones, is the way the back of the head goes up to a point to provide leverage for biting muscles.
You have to assume that the same might have been the case with neanderthals.
GGG?
I believe someone is bound to get mighty offended.
Cheers!
the "neaderthals" keyword is useless. Try these instead:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=neandertal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=neanderthal
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Neanderthal DNA Sequencing
Neanderthal DNA Sequencing | FR Post 2-3-03 | Essays by James Q. Jacobs
Posted on 02/03/2003 4:02:30 PM EST by vannrox
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Neandertals Not Our Ancestors, DNA Study Suggests (Whewww!!!)
National Geographic News | 5/14/03 | Hillary Mayell
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Oldest Fossil Protein Sequenced [from Neanderthal]
Max Planck Society | 08 March 2005 | Staff
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Neanderthal Genome May Be Reconstructed
AP via Yahoo! | 7/6/05 | Not given
Posted on 07/06/2005 1:10:07 PM EDT by malakhi
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Neanderthal Yields Nuclear DNA
BBC | 5-16-2006
Posted on 05/16/2006 6:33:16 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1633356/posts
Thanks! Fractal Trader, for the ping.
Over here
The Neandertal EnigmaFrayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
Great. Next thing you know the powdered pansies of the US Senate will be encouraging Neanderthals to illegally immigrate into the US to do the jobs that even the Mexicans won't do!
That thing on the right, its alive?
It's liver isn't...
What does he mean by "no evolutionary connection"? Does he mean that we could not have had a common ancestor? It is difficult to make sense of this. Evolutionary models suggest all species had a common ancestor, and certainly many of them are more dissimilar to us then the Neanderthals.
I think this might be a straw man. Isn't the common evolutionary speculation that we merely had common ancestors with them?
My understanding is that the line which produced modern humans and the line which produced Neanderthal are said to have split many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years prior to the emergence of Neanderthal.
The evidence has suggested for several years that there is no Neanderthal DNA found in modern humans. This suggests that if there was breeding between Neanderthal and Humans, infertile hybrids resulted, if anything.
No, because Neanderthal cranial cases were larger, and the head is largely balanced over the foramen magnum, while the gorilla did not stand upright and balance the head. The gorilla's sagital crest accomodated the jaw muscles, but the occipital crest is where the gorilla's large nuchal (neck) muscles attache to. The head appears very large because of the very large nuchal muscles.
There would seem to be a problem with that idea in that you'd figure any common ancestor of both modern man and the neanderthal would be further removed from us than the neanderthal. If we can't be descended from neanderthals because the genetic gap is too great, which is what we hear, then how could we be descended from something even further removed?
dang. That's just creepy!
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