U.S., German Scientists to Map Cave Man Gene
From Times Wire Reports
A two-year project has been launched to decipher the genetic code of the Neanderthal.
Scientists from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and 454 Life Sciences Corp. of Branford, Conn., will reconstruct a draft of the 3 billion building blocks of the Neanderthal genome, working with fossil samples from several individuals.
The Neanderthal species lived in Europe and western Asia from more than 200,000 years ago to about 30,000 years ago.
