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Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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The Relationship Between the Summer Tin Man and Robin
The presence of these two unusual features is highly significant unless they were completely unlinked genetically. And then that becomes a little bit more significant because now it's just like what we do in DNA when we do population statistics. So if you inherit one marker, you're not more likely to inherit another marker. The same thing with these phenotypic features, the hypodontia as well as the ears, are they unlinked? If they are, then yes, the presence of this adult man and this boy, that really starts to get me to lean towards, okay, this appears to possibly be the biological father.
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