[stanz]

Good article. I'll add it to my collection.

[stanz]

ping

[Nebullis]

Excellent!

[LiteKeeper]

YEC bump

[Ahban]

INteresting, but I don't see how it can help in our friendly debates- or all our other debates either!

If a Bison is only 1 acid different from a cow even though a million years separates them, it is not a very precise test. Also, I am pretty sure that there is more than one way to create a given protien. In other words, different genes could make the same protien. All this test measures is the protien, not the gene, so it would miss it when this happened.

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To show the potential of their technique, Nielsen-Marsh and colleagues sequenced the amino acids in osteocalcin extracted from bones of the extinct steppe bison (Bison priscus) found in permafrost in Siberia and Alaska. Both bones are a minimum of 55,000 years old, the limit of carbon dating.

The complete sequences of amino acids exactly matched that of the modern bison (Bison bison).

Doesn't ID predict that these are all randomly different?

[Junior]

Boy, AndrewC and gore3000 are gonna be pissed. They've been claiming that fossils can tell us nothing about the critters they used to be.

[aculeus]

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[itsahoot]

pieces of DNA large enough to sequence using sensitive amplification techniques