Svante Pääbo and his coworkers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have mapped 63% of the Neanderthal genome. This is a daunting task considering the age and fragmentation of available Neanderthal DNA.
Most of the news coverage I’ve seen ignores the obvious anthropological and evolutionary significance of this work and focuses on the burning question, “Can we clone one?”
Dr. Pääbo says no.
Here is the New York Times science page article. I'll try to add the reference from Science when the journal comes home from the lab.
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