ARTICLE: Richard's Genome to Be Entirely Sequenced

"Scientists are to sequence the entire genome of Richard III -- the King found buried beneath an English car parking lot -- in an attempt to discover once and for all what the long-missing monarch really looked like."

In the article, Turi King also states: "Once he is reinterred, everything is reinterred," said King. "The bones, the samples, everything. We can't keep anything, and that's the reason for doing this now, while we can. We have the technology, so this opportunity has come along at the right time."

So has something changed? There's more to ponder in the article itself:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/11/world/europe/richard-iii-genome-sequence/

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“None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try” - Mark Twain

Wednesday writes:

"In the article, Turi King also states: "Once he is reinterred, everything is reinterred," said King. "The bones, the samples, everything. We can't keep anything, and that's the reason for doing this now, while we can. We have the technology, so this opportunity has come along at the right time.""
Naturally all of his bones are going to be reinterred (it would be appalling if they weren't), but why all the DNA samples, I wonder? Are they afraid some rich lunatic is going to have him cloned? ;)
Pansy

>>>>>(snip)"As we know more and more about which genes are responsible for what, we can keep going back to check for evidence.<<<<< This means going back to check the genome results, yes? Not going back to do anything else to him? And no cloning! No, no, no! Sandra =^..^= From: pansydobersby Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 9:03 PM To: Subject: RE: ARTICLE: Richard's Genome to Be Entirely Sequenced

Wednesday writes:

"In the article, Turi King also states: "Once he is reinterred, everything is reinterred," said King. "The bones, the samples, everything. We can't keep anything, and that's the reason for doing this now, while we can. We have the technology, so this opportunity has come along at the right time."" Naturally all of his bones are going to be reinterred (it would be appalling if they weren't), but why all the DNA samples, I wonder? Are they afraid some rich lunatic is going to have him cloned? ;) Pansy

Wednesday,

I am sure you would agree and think it was a pretty sure bet that he had brown hair and eyes.With an outside chance of blue eyes.I remember hearing about a chap whose extended family had a large percentage of psychopaths in it( with a particular gene).He however was not. When his genes(or whatever*)where analysed he was found to carry the gene.The conclusion..nurture over nature.I think Richard saw enough in his life to prefer to follow nurture(his mother and father) rather than nature regardless of the genes he may have had.Led by example and what an example.

Kathryn x
PS* not being disrespectful,just not a scientist.

--- In , Wednesday McKenna <wednesday.mac@...> wrote:
>
> "Scientists are to sequence the entire genome of Richard III -- the King
> found buried beneath an English car parking lot -- in an attempt to
> discover once and for all what the long-missing monarch really looked like."
>
> In the article, Turi King also states: "Once he is reinterred, everything
> is reinterred," said King. "The bones, the samples, everything. We can't
> keep anything, and that's the reason for doing this now, while we can. We
> have the technology, so this opportunity has come along at the right time."
>
> So has something changed? There's more to ponder in the article itself:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/11/world/europe/richard-iii-genome-sequence/
>
> --
> "None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its
> cussedness; but we can try" - Mark Twain
>

Kathryn again,Just read all the posts that have arrived so far.You have made me laugh so heartily over some of them.Do you ever think what they would make of them in centuries to come????? lol x


--- In , "kathryng56@..." <kathryng56@...> wrote:
>
> Wednesday,
>
> I am sure you would agree and think it was a pretty sure bet that he had brown hair and eyes.With an outside chance of blue eyes.I remember hearing about a chap whose extended family had a large percentage of psychopaths in it( with a particular gene).He however was not. When his genes(or whatever*)where analysed he was found to carry the gene.The conclusion..nurture over nature.I think Richard saw enough in his life to prefer to follow nurture(his mother and father) rather than nature regardless of the genes he may have had.Led by example and what an example.
>
> Kathryn x
> PS* not being disrespectful,just not a scientist.
>
> --- In , Wednesday McKenna <wednesday.mac@> wrote:
> >
> > "Scientists are to sequence the entire genome of Richard III -- the King
> > found buried beneath an English car parking lot -- in an attempt to
> > discover once and for all what the long-missing monarch really looked like."
> >
> > In the article, Turi King also states: "Once he is reinterred, everything
> > is reinterred," said King. "The bones, the samples, everything. We can't
> > keep anything, and that's the reason for doing this now, while we can. We
> > have the technology, so this opportunity has come along at the right time."
> >
> > So has something changed? There's more to ponder in the article itself:
> >
> > http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/11/world/europe/richard-iii-genome-sequence/
> >
> > --
> > "None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its
> > cussedness; but we can try" - Mark Twain
> >
>

Only to play Devil's Advocate, I submit that Richard might have had black hair, and the paintings don't show it as the artists had difficulty painting black hair. (Now Yahoo is doublespacing messages. Bah.)

I am happy to see that Turi King is now saying they have to reinter everything, even the samples. Perhaps someone in Authority has suggested Leicester abandon the idea that he's accessible into perpetuity?

Weds

---In , <kathryng56@...> wrote:

Wednesday,

I am sure you would agree and think it was a pretty sure bet that he had brown hair and eyes.With an outside chance of blue eyes.I remember hearing about a chap whose extended family had a large percentage of psychopaths in it( with a particular gene).He however was not. When his genes(or whatever*)where analysed he was found to carry the gene.The conclusion..nurture over nature.I think Richard saw enough in his life to prefer to follow nurture(his mother and father) rather than nature regardless of the genes he may have had.Led by example and what an example.

Kathryn x
PS* not being disrespectful,just not a scientist.

--- In , Wednesday McKenna <wednesday.mac@...> wrote:
>
> "Scientists are to sequence the entire genome of Richard III -- the King
> found buried beneath an English car parking lot -- in an attempt to
> discover once and for all what the long-missing monarch really looked like."
>
> In the article, Turi King also states: "Once he is reinterred, everything
> is reinterred," said King. "The bones, the samples, everything. We can't
> keep anything, and that's the reason for doing this now, while we can. We
> have the technology, so this opportunity has come along at the right time."
>
> So has something changed? There's more to ponder in the article itself: