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africanolmec - Mentioned in another thread that Neanderthals were a 48 genome creature. I have heard that before, but I can't find the data. Anybody know where it might be?
Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes (46 chromosomes) and other great apes have 24 (48 chromosomes) pairs of chromosomes. In the human evolutionary lineage, two ancestral ape chromosomes fused at their telomeres producing human chromosome 2. There are nine other major chromosomal differences between chimpanzees and humans: chromosome segment inversions on human chromosomes 1, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15, 16, 17, and 18.
This 2006 study doesn't mention a difference in the number of pairs, but what does that mean?
Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA
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