A post on my other blog from p-ter on the second Neandertal genomics paper. Here is the important conclusion:
...expect some big papers on "sexy" genes like ASPM, microcephalin, and FOXP2 in the coming years.
Remember "Netscape time." Feels like genetics is approaching that in the Post-genomic era....
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It seems like everything is coming in twos the past couple of days.
This dovetails nicely with my previous post on encephalization. Brain size not linked to Microcephalin and ASMP?.
Tonal languages, ASPM, and MCPH. Over at my other blog p-ter reviews the paper now that it is out in PNAS.