DNA Based Neanderthal 'Construction'

[SwordsFlameSong]

interesting, but way too short, article:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080917-neanderthal-photo.html

[David19]

Very interesting, and I agree the article was too short.

[SwordsFlameSong]

Well, it does appear that there will be a televised special on it.

[SwordsFlameSong]

I googled the following in the wee hours and just finished reading the articles this morning. Some of the information is redundant - obviously - but y'all might find them interesting.

http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/paleo/neanderthal.html
http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/dna.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/neanderthaldna/
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Abstracts/Goodwin_00.html

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/neanderthal.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6146908.stm

[David19]

Well, it does appear that there will be a televised special on it.

Thanks, I'll look out for it.


I googled the following in the wee hours and just finished reading the articles this morning. Some of the information is redundant - obviously - but y'all might find them interesting.

http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/paleo/neanderthal.html
http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/dna.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/neanderthaldna/
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Abstracts/Goodwin_00.html

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/neanderthal.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6146908.stm

Thanks for those links :).

[Phoenix Element]

That's a really neat idea, reconstructing a Neanderthal that way. One of my former college professors used to do things like that (and then he worked for NASA...and then an art college, hehe).

I've seen a similar reconstruction of a Cro Magnon's head, a few years back. Reconstructive sculpting is something I'd love to do in another life perhaps. There must be something both empowering and depressing about giving a human face to people who have died, whether the reconstruction is for forensics science or historical curiosity.