Note the suspicious source of the human MT DNA discovered (https://x.com/ShaiCarmi/status/1845913336367501668 https://x.com/ShaiCarmi/status/1845913336367501668

Note the suspicious source of the human MT DNA discovered (https://x.com/ShaiCarmi/status/1845913336367501668 https://x.com/ShaiCarmi/status/1845913336367501668). K2a2a1, most common in Ashkenazi Jews and is not even slightly expected here: > The authors go on to give a lengthy explanation of why they did not study the ancestry of that person. > I will say (politely) that imo the explanation is not very convincing. > So who's hair is it? > * I can't see any obvious mention of a Jewish person working in the construction site, but maybe. > * Maybe it was a non-Jewish European, among those very few carrying the haplogroup. > * But I think it's most likely just contamination from a lab person (To be clear - the lion is real and definitely did eat humans. The DNA finding is just suspicious.) Edit: I don't like to appeal to authority but this is one of the world's leading statistical geneticists, if you downvote instinctively, look deep and investigate your priors.