http://www.biotech-intelligence.com/html/html/pool_3/5ce49afbb7a0390107bb4a6fa9aceb1a.html wrote:
July 20, 2006
- Sequencing of the Neandertal Genome Will H[b]elp to Identify Genetic Changes Responsible for Human Evolution [/b]-
BRANFORD, Conn., July 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 454 Life Sciences Corporation, a majority-owned subsidiary of CuraGen Corporation (NASDAQ:CRGN), in collaboration with scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, announced today in Leipzig, Germany the launch of a project to sequence the complete Neandertal genome. Neandertal is the closest relative to humans and knowledge of its genetic composition will significantly enhance the understanding of human biology. The project is estimated to take two years and is made possible by 454 Sequencing(TM) technology and a grant from the Max Planck Society.
Whether or not Neanderthal studies would be concidered Zoology; here is something that confuses me.
Evolution
(as I have recently been reminded) is simply a matter of logistical survival of a species....
So waht is all this talk about actual "genetic changes"? I thought that nothing changed except for the ammount of members of a species who are equiped to handle their environment.. and thus logically, they are the ones who breed more successfully and then dominate.
None of this takes into account anything involving a New Species growing....
Unless this is saying that Modern Man was origincally a Deformed hominid that happened to be better equiped to handle things... and that somehow more deformed hominids were born and earned the right to have their own sub-classification in the genus.