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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Woman's DNA discovered in 20,000 year old deer-tooth pendant

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Woman's DNA discovered in 20,000 year old deer-tooth pendant

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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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    Essel says it seems that contact with skin, sweat, saliva or blood allowed the wearer’s DNA absorb into the tooth.

    In case you too were wondering how human DNA was in a deer tooth.

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      I will choose to believe that there was a tribe of Deer People, probably the result of a lonely hunter finding a very shapely doe in the woods. Science has spoken.

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        Nah man, it’s Deer Lady.

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        Yeah! I came here to ask if there was any proof that it wasn’t a woman who could transform into a deer.

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      I was wondering how they even got any. I was under the impression that DNA doesn’t last that long.

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        2 million years old sample is the oldest.

        The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.[38] A few days later, on the 7th of December 2022, a study in Nature reported that two-million year old genetic material was found in Greenland, and is currently considered the oldest DNA discovered so far

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      I was.

      • Heydo@lemmy.world
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        I was too.

        • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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          Did you think it was vampiric deer, too?

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            Now I do!

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            I was.

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