Wednesday, January 5, 2011

A new member of the human family

Click on the title for a link to a discussion about a third member of the human family, the Denisovans.  They were more closely related to the Neanderthals than us but did contribute to the genome of some humans, primarily ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanesia) Melanesians. It is interesting that only non-Africans seem to share a few genes with Neanderthals and Melanesians.

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