Re:Skepticism About the New "Missing Link" Fossil
by gort on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @06:03AM
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I'm not sure I understand you perfectly.
A phylogenetic tree (which is essentially a family tree, but for multiple species or even all of life) can certainly be constructed on the basis of DNA alone.
But I guess you mean it won't tell us (for example) what our ancestor 100 million years ago looked like, which is true enough.
A phylogenetic tree (which is essentially a family tree, but for multiple species or even all of life) can certainly be constructed on the basis of DNA alone.
But I guess you mean it won't tell us (for example) what our ancestor 100 million years ago looked like, which is true enough.