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RE: Better Functional Understanding From Studying Human Vs Neanderthal Enzymes
neanderthals are very very similar to modern Homo-sapiens, however there are still some significant differences, especially at the protein level.
I agree with you. Though you could still trace the genome of the Neanderthals (Homo sapien neanderthalensis) to some of the extant modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens). And not just that, even the Denisovan genomes are present in some people.
And this leaves me with this question; how do we differentiate the pure breed of Homo sapiens sapiens from the hybrid? Because from inference; it looks like there were some cross-breedings that happened behind the scene.
I'm not a Biochemist though; I'm only speaking from a paleoanthropological point of view.
Nice piece sir
Computational Genomics. Though I am not specialized in that. There were cross breeding's but only in specific subsets of the population of mondern humans. I don't imagine it's that hard to identify a consensus sequence for the average homosapien gene vs neanderthal.