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15 November 2006

Biggest science story of the year! Breakthrough in DNA sequencing may allow entire Neandertal genome to be sequenced and compared to human genome to establish mutations that make us human.

post by: orthogonality at: 15:31 | 7 comments

Too cool. I wish we could make some... maybe someday. I bet they would be excellent pets!

posted by Meatbomb 15 November | 16:06

Pets! You bigoted specieist!! I for one welcome....well, you know.

posted by LarryC 15 November | 16:22

I thought they were already doing Geico commercials. Maybe those were Australopithecines?

posted by matildaben 15 November | 16:56

old news. perhaps you guys missed this the first time around, too?

posted by Wedge 15 November | 17:35

I think it would be cool.

It might give me some insight into some of the neighbors I've had over the years.

posted by jason's_planet 16 November | 00:00

Wedge, that's a different story, and not only didn't I miss it, I posted it to metafilter as an FPP.

posted by orthogonality 16 November | 02:16

what do you mean? obviously it's a different story.

or is it?

posted by Wedge 16 November | 06:23

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