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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/10/2006 : 18:16:56
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Found this very interesting article at Wired News. quote:
On a forest-choked expanse of land that will one day be called Germany, a herd of bison huddles together to ward off the cold. Hidden in the foliage nearby squats a man. Like the animals he's hunting, he has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to cope with freezing temperatures. His massive jaw juts out, and his forehead slopes forward to form a heavy brow – providing a thick layer of bone that protects his sinuses and large brain from the icy air. His barrel-shaped body and short limbs help him retain heat. So do the furs he wears and the fires his family builds in the cave where they live.
A good read.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2006 : 18:59:28 [Permalink]
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Thank you, Filthy, that was indeed a good read. Myself, I'm betting on Neanderthal having left no genes at all in modern Homo sapiens. I notice that Eddy Rubin has stolen my idea  from these fora, that the hybrid-looking boy (whose 28,000-year-old bones were found in Portugal, and who is thought by some to indicate interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals) may have been a sterile "mule." Given sufficient genetic distance, it's clear that interbreeding wouldn't possibly be successful beyond one generation.
The use of the computers to sort out contaminants is pretty amazing. Some of this stuff approaches the fictional techniques used in the novel, Jurassic Park. It should be interesting to see further work of this type.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/10/2006 19:00:55 |
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