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Re:Genetic analysis of tiny mummified skeleton from the Atac... by bordercases on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:28AM (#16655079)
It excludes other bipeds or apes.
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Re:Genetic analysis of tiny mummified skeleton from the Atac... by pvaldes on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:05AM (#16658867)
Not necessarily. Can be also a contamination from an external source of DNA. The article claims a mixed chilean-european DNA but we don't know how many moved humans had touched this skeleton before

And there is the fact that we share DNA with other species. It seems [1] that we shared a 93% of DNA with Macaca mulatta for example.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/1411-monkey-dna-points-common-hu...

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Re:Genetic analysis of tiny mummified skeleton from the Atac... by bordercases on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:09AM (#16704628)
On that second point, charitably we can assume that they found a marker which is uniquely human. Although yeah, could be contamination.
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