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Oldest Instance of Human DNA Discovered
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Sir Deimos
, Dec 04 2013 05:34 PM
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Sir Deimos
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Posted 04 December 2013 - 05:34 PM
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Posted 05 December 2013 - 06:24 PM
So maybe we're not descendents of pig fucking chimpanzees? Just people who people who fuck people who fuck pig fucking chimpanzees?
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Posted 07 December 2013 - 12:44 AM
I confess I'm skeptical. We've established that for ordinary fossils, DNA has a half-life of about 500 years. It is just BARELY theoretically possible to extract some information from a fossil 400,000 years old IF AND ONLY IF the DNA was in ideal storage conditions.
