Neanderthal DNA
The American Museum of Natural History is displaying a vial of microscopic 38,000-year-old Neanderthal DNA as part of their exhibit on human evolution. The exhibition will open on Saturday, February 10th, in the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins.
Ellen V. Futter, the museum’s president, called it “the first major exhibit hall of its kind to present the fossil and genomic record side by side, offering new and compelling evidence that tells a grand and sweeping story of man.”
Organizers of the exhibit hall wanted to incorporate genetic research because they said it illustrated links between organisms in ways that are often difficult with fossils.
Oops. Don’t tell the Just Science guys that I posted about evolution today.
Reuters, February 8, 2007
Tags: neanderthal, dna, genetics, genes, health, american museum of natural history, evolution
no problem with evolution, the science. we are just shying away from evolution, the social & cultural issue.
We won’t….actually in my just science post yesterday it took all I could do to resist taking a swipe at Michael Behe since his paper was cited in my entry.
But I was good.
its a pretty powerful impulse. i feel it myself. the thing is, if PZ myers does it well, why keep reinventing the wheel?