even a full skeleton would not place them in a phylogenetic tree. Ancestry is determined by genetics, not appearance. Otherwise people would correctly assume hyenas were Canids and Koalas actually were bears. They won't get some magically more detailed dna from finding the skull.
Honestly, with the exception of this conversation I've never really thought about it too much nor does it really bother me that I don't know.
I suppose more of the same would work for me. i.e. if they found another set of similar bones from a different person(I use person loosely) or two. One sample is a little small, it could be just an anomoly, at least that's the way my linear accountants mind works
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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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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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