The paper of record reports on introgression. Here is a tantalizing tidbit:
Two other reports of DNA studies of possible mixing of human and related genes are expected to be published in the next few weeks.
...I have suspicions, but I'm in the dark, so I'll be checking in on John Hawks regularly via my rss feed just like you. I am a little disappointed that Nick Wade didn't tackle this, but perhaps he is busy writing copy for the other "Big Idea" that Hawks and Cochran have brewing....
Related: I'm starting to be convinced by readers that the "Living Neandertals" that Hawks and Cochran have been talking about are situated on the Celtic Fringe.
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This is more for google, but if you missed anything, you should check it out. Here is a replay of the introgression & Neandertal related posts....
Preview:
Neandertal & H. sapiens sapiens interbreeding
Neandertal-"modern" mixing
Introgression related posts over the past 6 months
Main course…
This week, Science published two papers about the genetics of Neandertals from a team of scientists based at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology. The first (which is the only one anyone seems to really care about) gives a draft version of the entire Neandertal genome - a whopping…
Update: Update at the bottom....
In reference to the sequencing of the Neandertal genome, Kambiz at Anthropology.net states:
I have one little gripe with the New York Times article. Wade quotes a geneticist, Dr. Bruce Lahn saying there is, "evidence from the human genome suggests some…
(Warning: this post contains some journalistic/blogging inside-baseball material.)
Back in the dark ages (otherwise known as the 1990s), writing about science felt a bit like putting messages in a bottle. I'd write an article, a few weeks or months later it would appear in a magazine, and a few…
There was a recent survey of Celtic Genes in Britain and it was found that they were only slightly less common in England than in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. So the Celts were not totally pushed out of England: they were settled among.