A mammoth discovery: oldest DNA on record from million-year-old teeth
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How Far Back Do You Think We Can Go?
How far back do you think we can go? Over about one point two million years old. We are akind of opening the door to a future research discipline where we can go deep into time and study mac evolutionary changes, such as speciation events on many other species that also went through these big evolutionary changes around a million years ago. Beyond two point six million years, to my knowledge, there is no parma frost. So i think maybe the sort of environment puts an p limit to this. But we can definitely go more than one point two. My guess would be that it should be possible to go beyond two million as well.
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