Document Type
Open Access Article
Abstract
Ten years after the first draft versions of the human genome were
announced, technical progress in both DNA sequencing and ancient DNA
analyses has allowed a research team around Ed Green and Svante Pa¨a¨bo to
complete this task from infinitely more difficult hominid samples: a few
pieces of bone originating from our closest, albeit extinct, relatives, the
Neanderthals. Pulling the Neanderthal sequences out of a sea of contaminating
environmental DNA impregnating the bones and at the same time
avoiding the problems of contamination with modern human DNA is in itself
a remarkable accomplishment. However, the crucial question in the long run
is, what can we learn from such genomic data about hominid evolution?
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Recommended Citation
Hofreiter, Michael
(2011)
"Drafting Human Ancestry: What Does the Neanderthal Genome Tell Us about Hominid Evolution? Commentary on Green et al. (2010),"
Human Biology:
Vol. 83:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol83/iss1/1
