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Biffy – A plugged nickel for the horse you rhodium.

“This reminds me so much of 1975-76… Very similar and I hope very similar results..”

Except the Montreal Canadiens can’t play the Philadelphia Flyers in the Stanley Cup Finals. Although they can meet in the Conference Finals if they both rebound in their series.

Not looking at what I am looking at . Fugetaboutit

Human-Neanderthal Hookups Left a Bit of Caveman in Many of Us

May 6 (Bloomberg) — Early humans not only lived side-by- side with Neanderthal cave-dwellers, they probably mated with them, an analysis of ancient DNA showed.
As a result of these interspecies liaisons, as much as 4 percent of the genes of modern people living outside of Africa originated with Neanderthals, according to a report on the mapping of the Neanderthal genome published today in the journal Science.
An international research team used dental drills to tease powder and DNA from the 40,000-year-old bones of three females found in a Croatian cave and then sequenced the DNA. By comparing these ancient genes to those of modern people, the scientists say they’ve settled the debate over human-Neanderthal sex and are filling in pieces of our evolutionary history.
“We’re able to largely resolve the controversy,” said study co-author David Reich, an associate professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. “The main finding is that there was gene flow from Neanderthals into the genomes of all modern non-Africans.”
The researchers, led by Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Leipzig, Germany, compared the genome of the Neanderthals to those of five modern humans from Africa, Papua New Guinea, China and France. They found that
1 percent to 4 percent of the genes of the Asians and Europeans came from Neanderthals, while the Africans had no genes that were uniquely Neanderthal in origin.