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To: SunkenCiv

Yes, as much as 4%. The article outlined a process where the oldest inhabitants lived in isolated groups, with their Dan appearing in modern dna in small percentages.


45 posted on 04/05/2016 7:00:18 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: frithguild
The percentage has to do with random loss of half of parental DNA with each generation, as well as, in part, the vanishingly small surviving samples of Neandertal DNA.

47 posted on 04/06/2016 12:27:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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