As usual, John Hawks summarizes and expands on recent stories about the possible sequencing of the Neanderthal genome and the epigenetics of “identical” twins so well all I can really add is to link and plead that you go and “read the whole thing.” There are only two things I feel like saying:
- The possibility that you could have a Neanderthal-human “chimera” is good fodder for near future science fiction.
- Epigenetics is one of those topics that the public should know about, but the whole Nature vs. Nurture dichotomy just swallows it up.
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