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MangyTiger
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Message 5 of 213 (153511)
10-27-2004 8:51 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by RAZD
10-27-2004 5:11 PM


New species testing via DNA ?
and there are skeptics that don’t think it is a new species
Aren't these bones recent enough to make it possible to extract DNA - in which case I would have thought the "is it a different species" argument will be definitively settled sometime in the not too distant future. After all it worked with the Neanderthals didn't it ?
Actually this got me to wondering - just how different would the DNA have to be to categorically say it's a new species ? Any of our DNA experts out there care to share their views ?
Come to that, has anybody actually looked at the DNA of modern pygmies ?
So many questions, so small a brain...

Confused ? You will be...

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