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If anything exists to read and use this data it probably won’t be all that exciting to bring back legacy humans.
by alex_young 2y ago
If anything exists to read and use this data it probably won’t be all that exciting to bring back legacy humans.
- dyauspitr 2y agoYou never know. In the pre nuclear age, human genome were slightly different.
- Qem 2y agohttps://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/15/health/superbugs-antibiotics-neanderthal-woolly-mammoth-scn/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/15/health/superbugs-antibiot...
- zamalek 2y agoWe could use it to restore our own genome. The Y chromosome may become extinct in as little as 5Myr[1], such a record may allow our descendants to refresh it. We'd be avoiding a pretty common scifi trope (although the trope usually arises due to cloning). [1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58997-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58997-2
- ahazred8ta 2y agoUrban legend. Almost all of the gene loss happened 200 million years ago in early mammals. In the past 40 million years, our ancestors lost one Y-chromosome gene one single time about 20 million years ago. In the 7 million years since we separated from chimps, there have not been any genes lost from the Y. Note: a similar shrinking pattern is seen in birds, where females have a small W chromosome and males have two large Z's.