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Re:First partial skull of Homo Naledi child sheds light on e... by DeathArrow on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:56AM (#29315252)
Is there any chance to find some DNA in it?
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Re:First partial skull of Homo Naledi child sheds light on e... by netcan on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:45AM (#29315522)
Doubtful.

The temperature-age is such that none (afaik) has been recovered from any of the other bones found in that cave.

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Re:First partial skull of Homo Naledi child sheds light on e... by alberto_ol on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @04:29AM (#29316045)
If I remember well in this podcast the paleoanthropologist Lee Rogers Berger said that they sent samples of Homo naledi to different laboratories in order to extract DNA, but all failed.

https://insitome.libsyn.com/lee-berger-and-the-dawn-of-big-d...

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