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15 posted on 08/26/2002 2:49:30 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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"Neanderthal skeletons, the oldest early humans from who DNA has been obtained, also lack the sugar." [emphasis added]

Looks like Reuters needs to send this reporter to remedial grammar school; prepositions take the OBJECTIVE case ("from whom," not "from who").

22 posted on 08/26/2002 4:27:48 PM PDT by longshadow
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Just to tie into the discussion of LINE-1 sequences, the mutation in the enzyme gene under discussion was caused by an Alu sequence, a member of another repetetive DNA (aka junk) family.
28 posted on 08/26/2002 5:35:00 PM PDT by Nebullis
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