All Articles Tagged As: interbreeding
 | Like any species that aspires to rule the world, the honey bee, Apis mellifera, invades new territories in repeated assaults. A new study demonstrates that when these honey bees arrive in a place that has already been invaded, the newcomers benefit from the genetic endowment of their predecessors. ...> Full Article |
 | Each year, Jurassic Park seems less like science fiction. Scientists are decoding woolly mammoth DNA. They also are decoding DNA from an extinct species much closer to us in genetic makeup - the Neanderthal. ...> Full Article |
Researchers believe they have just confirmed a controversial theory of evolution. The X chromosome is a strikingly powerful force in the origin of new species.
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Nature has put a wonderful short set of videos on their web site about the Neanderthal Genome Project. The project, which hopes to decode and publish the Neanderthal Genome, within a couple years, is steadily making progress, and is releasing new information in regular intervals.
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 | Humans continued to evolve significantly long after they were established in Europe, and interbred with Neanderthals as they settled across the continent. ...> Full Article |
Work on the Neanderthal Genome Project is starting to bear fruit as two scientific papers are published in
journals Nature and Science. So far a large portion of the Neanderthal DNA has been assembled. The
Neanderthal, who became extinct 24,000 years ago may be our closest relative.
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Researchers with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Chicago have published a paper
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that provides circumstantial evidence that humans and
Neanderthals interbred at some point in history.
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