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...sometime in the next few weeks, a team led by molecular geneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, will announce an even more stunning achievement: the sequencing of a significant fraction of the genome of Neanderthals--the human-like species we picture when we hear the word caveman--who are far closer to us genetically than chimps are. And though Neanderthals became extinct tens of thousands of years ago, Pääbo is convinced he's on the way to reconstructing the entire genome of that long-lost relative, using...
...years later, a team led by Pääbo announced that the human version of a gene called FOXP2, which plays a role in our ability to develop speech and language, evolved within the past 200,000 years--after anatomically modern humans first appeared. By comparing the protein coded by the human FOXP2 gene with the same protein in various great apes and in mice, they discovered that the amino-acid sequence that makes up the human variant differs from that of the chimp in just two locations out of a total of 715--an extraordinarily small change that...
...life none of us knew about, a life involving invisible ink and microfilm, the tunnels at Cu Chi and mail drops in the Ho Bo woods. He had a rank (colonel then, major general when he died this week) and, no doubt, a serial number. But to those of us who worked closely with him, as I did for three years, Pham Xuan An was nothing more (or less) than a first-class journalist, with better sources in the South Vietnamese government and a better understanding of the war's historical and political meaning for Vietnam than we would ever...
...Hundreds of horse industry organizations, racehorse owners, trainers, jockeys and humane societies back the ban. Hollywood has also turned out in full force with more than 50 entertainers - including Bo Derek, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Willie Nelson and Paul McCartney - publicly opposing the slaughter...
...Mojo Priest. But he's proudest of his guitar skills. "You can't find another actor who can play guitar as good as me," he boasts. "Kevin Bacon, Keanu Reeves, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner they're not even in my universe." His blues album features guest appearances by Bo Diddley and Pinetop Perkins as well as some new Seagal tunes, including one that ends with the lines: "I told her I can't have no more sass/ And from now on, she can talk to my ass." At least he's not bragging about his lyrics. HIS GREATEST...