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[sovay]

The news which made my day when I woke up and saw it in the paper: some of us have Neanderthal DNA. The original published papers are here, currently free to all visitors.

My mother is delighted. "Of course," she said when I showed her the article. "And they were gentle and ate wonderful grubs and were telepathic." The first book she ever read about the Neanderthals was William Golding's The Inheritors (1955).

I think it's pretty awesome, too.

Comments

[sovay]

Of all the news I've read this week, that article's the one I've returned to the most and just pored over. Fascinating stuff.

I like that Science is making the research available; usually the full articles are locked except to subscribers.