The Neanderthal Genome

Scientists from the American company 454 Life Sciences Corp. and Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology are out to map the DNA of Neanderthal man. 454's Michael Egholm says, "The Neanderthal is the closest relative to the modern human, and we believe that by sequencing the Neanderthal, we can learn a lot." The project is expected to take two years.