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To: SunkenCiv

Wikipedia says something interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian

Earlier samples of Yersinia pestis DNA have been found in skeletons dating from 3000 to 800 BC, across West and East Eurasia.[43] The strain of Yersinia pestis responsible for the Black Death, the devastating pandemic of bubonic plague, does not appear to be a direct descendant of the Justinian plague strain. However, the spread of Justinian plague may have caused the evolutionary radiation that gave rise to the currently extant 0ANT.1 clade of strains.


8 posted on 09/08/2025 7:38:10 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: Doctor Congo

Thx!


10 posted on 09/08/2025 8:16:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Doctor Congo

Microbes have much shorter generations, which must make it more difficult to determine a parsimonious descent tree.


15 posted on 09/08/2025 9:05:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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