Comments on: Meet Inuk – full genome of ancient human tells us about his hair, eyes, skin, teeth, ancestry and earwax

By: Miranda Milliken

Miranda Milliken — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:33:57 +0000

Oh my God! Its Steven Seagal!

By: Hwa Shi-Hsia

Hwa Shi-Hsia — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:33:39 +0000

Did anybody say if there are any plans to sequence Oetzi? (the Iceman)

By: Bjarke

Bjarke — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:14:45 +0000

Become fan of Inuk today on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inuk/480150425166

By: Mike Olson

Mike Olson — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:25:23 +0000

I’d say more like Segal than Ed Yong. How’s Segal with a kayak and a harpoon?

By: James

James — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:15:58 +0000

Doesn’t this digital rendering look a bit like Steven Segal?

By: Ed Yong

Ed Yong — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:59:59 +0000

I suspect not, Sci. The bit about the migration routes in the paper is very brief, but there’s a supersekrit press conference recording somewhere so I’ll have a listen when I have time (HA!) and see if the researchers revealed any more.

By: Scicurious

Scicurious — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:55:48 +0000

No mullet, Ed. At least not that I can see from your pics. This is a super cool finding! Do they know yet if the independent re-colonization of North America resulted in any hybridization with peoples of the northwest?

By: IanW

IanW — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:08:45 +0000

“Inuk”? Seriously? Why didn’t they just name him Pat Ronizeme?

By: Ed Yong

Ed Yong — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:29:22 +0000

At this point, I really need to confirm that I do not have a mullet. This is not to slight wearers of mullets. Many cool people had mullets, like MacGyver and… er… yeah.

By: Simon K

Simon K — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:26:27 +0000

Fascinating. Based on that illustration, genome sequencing appears to have proved that ancient Greenlanders had mullets!