tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post5374354001600046512..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: I saw Mummy kissing mosquitos!Anne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-81778931125977445402010-02-17T10:45:51.286-05:002010-02-17T10:45:51.286-05:00The whyevolutionistrue blog has a post on this sam...The whyevolutionistrue blog has a post on this same story. Jerry Coyne's comments provide more detail about the story than we did.<br /><br />But neither we nor he said what I think is a relevant point. If this is legitimate DNA research rather than publicity-seeking, and the investigators want to know something about King Tut's health, they should have checked to see if he had any of the well-known circum-Mediterranean protective globin-gene or other genotypes. That might have been at least a tad closer to real science.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.com