{"id":369,"date":"2009-02-19T20:36:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T07:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/02\/sequencing_the_neadertal_genom\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T20:36:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T07:36:27","slug":"sequencing-the-neadertal-genom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/02\/sequencing-the-neadertal-genom\/","title":{"rendered":"sequencing the neadertal genome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago now there was a splash of excitement in the newspapers: a research team had announced that they&#8217;d sequenced the Neandertal genome. (They didn&#8217;t use exclamation marks but you could imagine them there.) I thought at the time that it sounded interesting, but it was a bit unusual that the announcement preceded the publication of a paper in&nbsp;<i>Science<\/i> or&nbsp;<i>Nature<\/i> (which is where you might expect to see it.) So I rather thought I might wait to write about it until the actual paper came out &amp; I could read it myself.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; &#8211; it&#8217;s insanely busy at work, so time&#8217;s short, &amp; then today I found (via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\">PZ&#8217;s site<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/johnhawks.net\/weblog\/reviews\/neandertals\/neandertal_dna\/neandertal-genome-faq-2-2009.html\">this excellent pos<\/a>t by palaeoanthropogy professor John Hawks that gives the Neandertal genome story the &#8216;frequently asked questions&#8217; treatment. Well-worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago now there was a splash of excitement in the newspapers: a research team had announced that they&#8217;d sequenced the Neandertal genome. (They didn&#8217;t use exclamation marks but you could imagine them there.) 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