In July, rocker Ozzy Osbourne became one of few to submit his blood to have his full genome sequenced and analyzed. The results are in, and it turns out his genome reveals some Neanderthal lineage, according to Scientific American.
Osbourne and his wife, Sharon, are expected to discuss the testing and its results Friday at the TEDMED 2010 scientific conference in San Diego, California. In a Sunday Times of London column (registration required), the former Black Sabbath front man said he was reluctant to submitting to the test at first. He eventually gave in to his curiosity over how he had managed to survive years of hard living and substance abuse.
"Given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years—not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol... there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive," he wrote.
"Maybe my DNA could say why."
ewwwww lol is that a real person becuz he looks like a monkey!!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, not sure who you mean, exactly, but the guy on the left is Ozzie Osbourne, who used to be a rock star. The image on the right is a reconstruction of what we think a Neanderthal person would have looked like. Neanderthal's were a group of folks who were not fully human (although not monkeys), but who we think were around at the time modern humans were emerging, so that we lived together, and maybe competed with each other. The Neanderthal's are now all extinct.
ReplyDeleteWELL DATS COOL !! HE REALLY LOOKS LIKE A MONKEY THO...WEN U SAY THT THEY ARE EXTINCT.. DO YOU MEAN THAT THEY EXISTS A BUNCH OF YEARS AGO??
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