Quote Originally Posted by Foot View Post
I don't get it? Have you not heard about the Neanderthal Genome Project?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_Genome_Project

Foot
Indeed, I think that is one of the sources from whence came to be his thesis on the DNA. He went on to explain that now one could get DNA out of fossilized bones (only Mitochondrial or whatever is it named in English), but they could not recover the full DNA sequence because that was corrupted not too long from the death of the organism.