However, Neandertal Genome sequencing is something I can really sink my teeth into. I look forward to updates on this. I remain unconvinced that these fellows went extinct, but that some part of their gene pool remains in us. This is because my wife thinks i have many Neandertal traits.
:’) Search this topic for my template post quoting the Shreeve book. :’) The mtDNA (pronounced “empty DNA”) Paabo et al study assumes a lot of things, including a stable and steady mutation rate, and also that the one and only such specimen tested would match anything (i.e., that the one particular line had survived whatever merger and the odds); everyone else is just supposed to accept that the 379 base pairs were from the sample and not from some microbe that later (or earlier) munched the remains, and also accept that there’s literally NO ONE ON EARTH alive today (since few have been sequenced) who matches the supposed sequence, and for that matter, also accept that the books weren’t cooked to bear out an underlying bias.