Ozzy Osbourne's Genome Reveals Some Neanderthal Lineage

ByOhTek writes "CNN reports that in July, rocker Ozzy Osbourne became one of few to submit his blood to have his full genome sequenced and analyzed. The results are in, and it turns out his genome reveals some Neanderthal lineage. What does Ozzie have to say about it? 'I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol... there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why,' he wrote."

Wait....

[Labcoat Samurai]

So in Ozzy-logic, you're better at surviving because you have Neanderthal DNA? The Neanderthals would likely disagree.... if they could ;)

Re:Wasn't there a study...

[elsurexiste]

In 2010 that suggested that somewhere around 1-4% of everyone's DNA is Neanderthal ish?

My cousin must have a decent 20% or 30% percent. It's the only explanation I've got for some of the things he does.

Re:Wait....

[Flea of Pain]

Clearly we do. The Neanderthals were clearly all Dark Prince rock gods. Oh to live in times such as those...

Re:Oh the irony.

[Labcoat Samurai]

True, I have a feeling that if you threw Ozzie out into the wilderness to support himself via a hunting/gathering lifestyle, he would fail miserably, emphasizing his neanderthal heritage, but maybe if you took ancient neanderthals and threw them into the heavy metal lifestyle, they would have succeeded.

Calls for some lyric revision

[Bemopolis]

I.
Am.
(Pre-) Iron (Age) Man
(D)NAna-nana-nana, na na na.

they studied keith richard's dna too

[circletimessquare]

apparently it's backwards with him:

the neanderthal genome reveals some lineage inherited from keith richards

Re:I thought we all came from neanderthals?

[Labcoat Samurai]

I don't think that's the politically correct term, but no, not unless they adopt.

Re:Bah

[vandelais]

Ozzy's DNA is more like:

actgactacgactg

i-i-i

acggactatacccagg

i-i-i

caccttgaggca

Re:Wasn't there a study...

[Sperbels]

Logic fail. The classification has nothing to do with whether or not they could have interbred. How would they know? Neanderthals were classified in 1800's.

Re:Rich

[bsDaemon]

That's possibly one of the most blatant troll attempts in history, right up there with the people who think that Roger Moore is the real James Bond.

Re:Wait....

[Reziac]

The conclusion is clear. The Neanderthals went extinct due to an insufficiency of booze, cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol...

Re:Wasn't there a study...

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't see how Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalis could interbreed & produce viable children.

You're right, you need a man and a woman to produce children.