[Taxacom] ancestor DNA (was LOL (was Re: New lizard species))

Sergio Vargas sevragorgia at gmail.com
Thu Jun 10 13:57:18 CDT 2010


Hi:

> ...Never heard of Ancient DNA yet or dinosaur amino acid sequences?
> We have now genetic information of ancestors, isn't that great!

I don't think one could call a fossil's DNA "ancestor DNA"... it
should be called extinct taxon DNA... fossils are not ancestors, are
just extinct taxa.

sergio




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