I hope I'm recalled back to my home planet before individual genetic sequencing becomes mandatory on this one. It would be difficult to explain why my DNA doesn't look at all like that of a human being... #genomesequence
an error rate of 1 per 100,000 sounds good, but there are about 3 billion base pairs in the human genome, so you are looking at 30,000 errors. Most of these will be insignificant, but if major decisions are bieng made, the data better be darn good. #genomesequence
@Dr Emilio Lizardo: That is the real problem. We still no very little about how the whole system works together. There are already quite a few swindlers peddling procedures based on rough genomic information, so once this gets cheaper all the quacks are going to come out of the wood work.
On the plus side, however, I will finally be able to prove emphatically that I do indeed have the sexy gene. #genomesequence
I dont know, there is some evidence supporting that they did indeed crossbreed, such as a possible hybrid skeleton that was found. Also some remains that had some DNA they were able to extract that had something quite interesting, they had FOXP2, just like we did.
For those of you who dont know what FOXP2 is, its a gene thats for languistics in humans, you know for talking to each other and what not.
Now I guess its entirly possible that they evolved it on their own (very unlikly) got it from a common ancestor as us (more likly but still unlikly) or there was some crossbreeding involved that gave one speices it.
Then theres the divergance of races in modern humans. Some scientists have said that there was too little time for there to become so many races that there are now without something interfering with the gene pool.
As for some of you who mentioned Mules being sterile, thats not always true, every once in a while a donkey/horse (Mule) hybrid, will be fertile. Given enough time and a good number of them happening, we could have fertile mules breeding with each other and their parent speices.
Well, hmmmmmmm. Don't really know what to make of this yet. When I studied physical anthropology in school, the assimilation theory was still quite strong. The idea was that the Neanderthal peoples weren't really all that different from the rest of us.
But I guess that's going to change now.
And I think some of these comments here have the faintest whiff of racism. The reason I say that is because Neanderthals are so close to us insofar as we can deduce their physical and mental characteristics from the tiny smattering of evidence we have that they all could be due to mere ethnic variation.
Don't know what to make of this yet. I mean it's pretty hard to ignore DNA evidence.
@corpore-metal: WOW, that would really be a huge argument if they found a lost group of them somewhere(talking book material here). Racism against a race that did lose the Evolutionary Race long ago. That would bo a good read(if it was done well).
@FREEBS72..The Flying Sumo: I just finished an intro physical anthropology class, and the we were told that they may have interbred but it was more likely that Homo sapiens simply replaced Neandertals.
But, it was also stressed that the Neandertals weren't that different from modern humans, and that the idea of Neandertals being brutish cavemen is wrong.
@The_Sporean_Bob: Yeah, I gotta go with the "mule," sterile offspring theory. Many closely related species can breed in a limited fashion, and, without further evidence, I would see no reason to expect otherwise in this case.
I think red hair is the product of 2 different recessive blond genes. Which is why the Scottish have so many red heads, having mixed Scandanavian and Anglo Saxon blood...
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Also, how much to have my genetic sequence rendered in lego? #genomesequence
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On the plus side, however, I will finally be able to prove emphatically that I do indeed have the sexy gene. #genomesequence
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500,000 cases worldwide sounds horrible, until you run it agains 6 billion people.
Which means you have a .000833 % chance of having gotten or getting swine flu.
This is called a global pandemic, and the reason I get annoyed at the news. #genomesequence
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For those of you who dont know what FOXP2 is, its a gene thats for languistics in humans, you know for talking to each other and what not.
Now I guess its entirly possible that they evolved it on their own (very unlikly) got it from a common ancestor as us (more likly but still unlikly) or there was some crossbreeding involved that gave one speices it.
Then theres the divergance of races in modern humans. Some scientists have said that there was too little time for there to become so many races that there are now without something interfering with the gene pool.
As for some of you who mentioned Mules being sterile, thats not always true, every once in a while a donkey/horse (Mule) hybrid, will be fertile. Given enough time and a good number of them happening, we could have fertile mules breeding with each other and their parent speices.
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So I don't really know what you're saying.
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But I guess that's going to change now.
And I think some of these comments here have the faintest whiff of racism. The reason I say that is because Neanderthals are so close to us insofar as we can deduce their physical and mental characteristics from the tiny smattering of evidence we have that they all could be due to mere ethnic variation.
Don't know what to make of this yet. I mean it's pretty hard to ignore DNA evidence.
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That would bo a good read(if it was done well).
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But, it was also stressed that the Neandertals weren't that different from modern humans, and that the idea of Neandertals being brutish cavemen is wrong.
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