(July 1, 2012 at 9:32 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(July 1, 2012 at 9:25 pm)Annik Wrote: This is why I was careful to say that the DNA was the oldest, not the bones themselves.
Right. Of course the Neanderthal Genome Project extracted DNA from a 38,000 year old HNS femur and found:
Quote:At roughly 3.2 billion base pairs,[3] the Neanderthal genome is about the size of the modern human genome. According to preliminary sequences, 99.7% of the base pairs of the modern human and Neanderthal genomes are identical, compared to humans sharing around 98.8% of base pairs with the chimpanzee
The last line should piss off the creatards no end!
The chimpanzee thing would piss off creationists, however they just usually claims Neanderthals are just another variant in the homo type.
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