Posted on 10/12/2006 11:22:03 AM PDT by blam
Welcome Mrs Ivan. LOL @ "That Ivan".
No, it doesn't. No plant DNA is anywhere near this similar to human DNA (or that of any animal). NOTE: It's possible that some particular gene might be this similar, but overall sequence similarity? No way.
Every DNA study so far has absolutely proved that Neanderthals and modern humans had common ancestors approx 600,000 years ago and we know that the Neanderthals had moved into Europe approx 300,000 years ago. The question here is whether or not they cross bred again after modern humans migrated into Europe approx 50,000 years ago. Very limited morphological evidence seems to indicate that they did. Very limited DNA evidence seem to indicate that they didn't. Looking and waiting for more evidence to be found and examined is what makes studying science fun.
Of course anti-science Luddites and charlatans who make a profession out of profiting on the gullibility of simple minded peoples superstitions by concocting outrageous lies and offering a combination of both ancient and recently concocted myths as proofs that allegedly refute science wouldn't understand that would they?
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