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483: No Such Thing As Rivets On A Tombstone

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The End of All DNA

Swedish DNA expert Svante Parbo started the field of extracting DNA from ancient bones. He published a study and he'd realised that you could extract DNA from old bones. That's a huge realisation. And he got letters, lots of letters from men saying, I can't meanderthale actually. They said fully or partly Neanderthal and offering him samples to analyse for his work. But we're like, maybe we don't know though. So it might be from how? It might be in a leddy. We just don't know. The guy that found the leddy, Lee Berger, is like, I reckon it is. But we are like,

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