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The Common Ancestor?

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Coragyps
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10-18-2010 10:40 AM 		Reply to: Message 167 by barbara
10-18-2010 9:53 AM

Re: Time Tree : : Timescale of Life
You could sequence the samples and compare the genes (and non-gene portions) to published sequences of various critters. If you found genes coding for, say, hemoglobin, you would know that that sample wasn't from a elm tree or a Pseudomonas, but I think you would need an actual library of sequences to get down to the Family or Genus level of identification.
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03-20-2013 10:06 AM 		Reply to: Message 306 by kofh2u
03-20-2013 9:09 AM

Re: Straying from the facts
the LATEST book enumerating the now acceptable 22 extinct HUMANS that went before us.
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Kofh - what happens to your house of cards when the NEXT book, or actually the next paper in Nature, appears and adds number 23 to the "acceptable" list?
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Will you even reflect for a moment on that possibility?
"The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails." H L Mencken
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