[Heatseeker]

The source of this story is Planet Save.com , not “Researchers at the John Radcliffe Institute of Molecular Medicine ” as posted. One probably has credibility, the other calls themselves "Planet Save"

I agree. I believe the entity they are referring to is actually titled The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DS. URL is www.imm.ox.ac.uk but it doesn't respond for me.

[elfman2]

Thanks for the full name. Googling that and the word Neanderthal yields this page from their Oxford news letter: Red hair genes 100,000 years old

" It has been widely reported that the gene originated in Neanderthal man. Dr Harding says this just isn't true: 'We have never stated in our research that this gene is Neanderthal, but at the moment I cannot statistically prove that it isn't which is why others have drawn these conclusions.’"

Turn’s out that this whole thread is absolute nonsense. I’m shocked