December 1, 2006

Gone but Not Forgotten

By RICHARD MONASTERSKY

Neanderthals' genes provide clues about the extinct people

Neanderthals, those long-lost cousins of modern humans, will not remain lost for long, at least from the prying eyes of geneticists.

Two teams of scientists announced in November that for the first time they had analyzed DNA from the nuclei of cells preserved in 37,000-year-old Neanderthal fossils. That, they say, lays the groundwork for determining the entire sequence of the Neanderthal genome within the next two

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