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Re:New human-like species discovered by whistlerbrk on Thursday September 10, 2015 @04:48PM (#10200463)
I'm guessing that shotgun sequencing techniques are used -- that is, you don't need full length segments in order to reconstruct significantly long lengths of DNA. Again a guess.
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Re:New human-like species discovered by erroneousfunk on Thursday September 10, 2015 @05:31PM (#10200693)
No, they're not used, because they didn't find DNA -- they found rocks. We're dealing with fossils here, not organic matter. Tissue does not last for millions of years.
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Re:New human-like species discovered by JoeAltmaier on Thursday September 10, 2015 @05:51PM (#10200774)
Bakker notes that lots of what people call dinosaur fossils are in actuality just bone. Fossilization is rarely a complete or perfect process. So this may in fact be bone.
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Re:New human-like species discovered by sunwooz on Thursday September 10, 2015 @05:50PM (#10200767)
Wasn't a scientist able to extract DNA fragments from dinosaur bones by leaving them in an acidic solution?
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