{"id":1058,"date":"2008-11-07T03:33:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T03:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2009-03-22T16:06:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T16:06:51","slug":"bum-genes-mean-end-of-the-line-for-iceman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2008\/11\/07\/bum-genes-mean-end-of-the-line-for-iceman\/","title":{"rendered":"Bum Genes Mean End Of The Line For Iceman"},"content":{"rendered":"

(I ought to add up front that the following is the result of an exercise in a type of sensationalistic reporting characteristic of certain UK tabloids)<\/em><\/p>\n

Remember the Iceman<\/a>? Not Maverick\u2019s nemesis from Top Gun, but the 5000 year old Neolithic mummy found in the German Alps back in 1991.<\/p>\n

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After 17 years of peaking and prodding, Frozen Fritz is out of the freezer and back in the news. This time, Italian scientists working with DNA<\/a> taken from the Iceman\u2019s rectum have figured out he has no living relatives. A team including Franco Rollo from Camerino University<\/a>, and Luca Ermini working at Camerino and Leeds University<\/a>, used the genes in Iceman\u2019s DNA like an identity card; but it turns out nobody today carries anything even similar.<\/p>\n