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Ancient DNA Secrets

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Skull of Mary Magdalene

Over that kind of, let's say, 100 million year timescale, how much does a genome change? Is that even a reasonable question? Well, there will be some genes for sure that are similar. But not all the genes will be there. The ones that are there will have some similarity with the other ones. So the reason that things that go, rather than bring extinct animals back to life, maybe stop making animals that are currently alive extinct. You know, just...

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