They can tell all that from an old pinky bone they dug up? Maybe it was just a person whose mother was also her sister or some such thing. Forgive me if I remain sceptical until they find something more than a pinky bone.
Well, they can extract DNA from fossilised mammoths, so why not a human(oid) pinky bone? Note that this does not give any information about looks, constitution or way-of-life, as stated in the article.
We've just recently "cracked" the DNA code right? I mean I'm no scientist, but if we're at the early stages of understanding DNA coding and sequences there is a lot that is subject to error. I'm certainly not saying it's not possible that she's a distant ancestor of humans I'm just not buying it, at the moment. I need something a bit more concrete than a pinky bone.
And doesn't generations of inbreeding cause all kinds of weird issues? Again, not saying this is the case, just asking.
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Possible new human ancestor found in Siberia
- 25/03/2010 03:26:22 AM
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Yes, I found that very exciting (link to new scientist article)
- 25/03/2010 08:02:55 AM
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Humans and chimps have a last shared ancestor ca 5 million years ago *NM*
- 25/03/2010 12:51:22 PM
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Yes, but
- 25/03/2010 12:53:17 PM
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sounds like she would have been somewhere between Neanderthal and Homo Erectus
- 25/03/2010 05:09:29 PM
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*NM*
Re: Possible new human ancestor found in Siberia
- 25/03/2010 04:21:03 PM
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DNA doesn't get weird because of that
- 25/03/2010 04:42:45 PM
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Correct me if I'm wrong but...
- 25/03/2010 04:54:51 PM
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You are wrong.
- 25/03/2010 05:34:44 PM
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Usually when you correct someone
- 25/03/2010 06:40:49 PM
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Re: Usually when you correct someone
- 25/03/2010 06:46:02 PM
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Re: Usually when you correct someone
- 25/03/2010 06:50:07 PM
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Re: Usually when you correct someone
- 25/03/2010 06:51:45 PM
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it doesn't take much understanding of a gene sequence to place it.
- 25/03/2010 05:41:18 PM
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Re: it doesn't take much understanding of a gene sequence to place it.
- 25/03/2010 06:46:56 PM
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what would they have to find for you?
- 25/03/2010 06:59:34 PM
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Re: what would they have to find for you?
- 25/03/2010 07:16:47 PM
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okay, think of it this way then.
- 25/03/2010 07:47:38 PM
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What the? You've been in my office?
- 25/03/2010 08:09:08 PM
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*shake head* DNA analysis doesn't need more than a pinky finger.
- 25/03/2010 04:42:45 PM
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Please reread what I said
- 25/03/2010 04:56:32 PM
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please learn to fire your neurons.
- 25/03/2010 05:28:10 PM
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Re: please learn to fire your neurons.
- 25/03/2010 05:35:51 PM
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living in a small city in Kansas
- 25/03/2010 05:41:54 PM
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