Edward Rubin

Edward M. "Eddy" Rubin is a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California and the director of the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute.

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Amongst much other work, he performed testing on the Neanderthal genome, which suggests human and Neanderthal DNA are some 99.5 percent to nearly 99.9 percent identical.^[1]

References

1. ^ Neanderthal bone gives DNA clues