Probing Question: What can we learn from Neanderthal DNA?
Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 17:26
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Contrary to their image as knuckle-dragging brutes, the Neanderthals on television play tennis and attend cocktail parties - and sell auto insurance. In reality, these mysterious fellow hominids died out about 30,000 years ago. Today, an international research team is extracting DNA from Neanderthals who were, literally, cavemen. (Their bones were found in Croatian caves.)