I really hate when scientific reporting repeats figures without really providing context, just to check the "we tried to explain" box. > One of the first of ma

I really hate when scientific reporting repeats figures without really providing context, just to check the "we tried to explain" box. > One of the first of many surprises in his research was to find out that the genetic differences between Neanderthals and all modern humans(amounting to about 30,000) are far less than the differences between two random human beings alive today – around 3 million [bases ?] > At least half of the Neanderthal genome – probably as much as 60 to 70% of it, Pääbo believes – is to be found in living humans This does not compute in multiple ways. Some information is obviously missing, but all we get is these two paragraphs next to each other.