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...