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It excludes other bipeds or apes.
by bordercases 9y ago
It excludes other bipeds or apes.
- pvaldes 9y agoNot necessarily. Can be also a contamination from an external source of DNA. The article claims a mixed chilean-european DNA but we don't know how many moved humans had touched this skeleton before And there is the fact that we share DNA with other species. It seems [1] that we shared a 93% of DNA with Macaca mulatta for example. [1] https://www.livescience.com/1411-monkey-dna-points-common-human-ancestor.html https://www.livescience.com/1411-monkey-dna-points-common-hu...
- bordercases 9y agoOn that second point, charitably we can assume that they found a marker which is uniquely human. Although yeah, could be contamination.