July 22, 2007

A Podcast Interview on Ancient DNA from the Neanderthal Genome

I have a podcast I found thru Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei’s blog, which actually came originally from Marc Pelletier of Futures in Biotech, that I wanna share withya. The podcast is fairly long, its about 45 minutes long.
Marc interviewed Dr. Svante Pääbo, Director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, [...]

July 22, 2007

Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie announces 3.5 million year old Hominid Mandible

I was actually in Ethiopia when I heard on the national radio of Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie’s new 3.8 million to 3.5 million years ago hominid mandible. I remember it was hot that day, about 116 degrees Fahrenheit or about 47 degrees Celsius, when I heard the news. I was pining over the heat and this [...]