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   jojo to None   
   Re: DNA Tests? HOW accurate are the spit   
   15 Sep 25 17:56:51   
   
   XPost: alt.paranormal, alt.atheism, alt.conspiracy   
   XPost: alt.religion.christian   
   From: f00@0f0.00f   
      
   None wrote:   
   > On Sep 12, 2025, None wrote   
   > (Message-ID: <10a2usm$5del$4@dont-email.me>):   
   >   
   >> On Sep 12, 2025, Dawn Flood wrote   
   >> (Message-ID: <10a2dt4$3cj$1@dont-email.me>):   
   >>   
   >>> On 9/12/2025 3:47 PM, Andrew wrote:   
   >>>> "Dawn Flood" wrote in message news:109vgq9$2vl7u$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>>> Andrew wrote:   
   >>>>>> "Dawn Flood" wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Andrew wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> That the origins of all human beings can be traced back to Africa, which   
   >>> is where the first modern humans arose.   
   >>   
   >> That is a total rewrite of Human history, migratory patterns, etc, even DNA   
   >> disproves that thinking. And so does the DNA and genomes of chimps and   
   >> humans.   
   >   
   > Off topic for this thread and denoted why in the subject.   
   > We have all been conned. Using scientific explanations to support the con.   
   >   
   > Just read this as it was part of an article.   
   >   
   > "Cosimo Posth, an archaeogenetics expert at the University of Tübingen, in   
   > Germany, and colleagues described the genomes of ten different individuals   
   > who lived in three key regions: Siberia’s Altai Mountains, the Kamchatka   
   > Peninsula and other parts of the Russian Far East. Environmental   
   > conditions—cold climates at high latitudes—allowed for optimal   
   > preservation of DNA that was hundreds to thousands of years old. “In these   
   > environments you can find individuals with 70 to 80 percent of human DNA in   
   > their bones, comparable to what you’d get if you extracted saliva from you   
   > or me,” says Posth. “You can actually generate a genome of the same   
   > quality as a modern genome. It’s amazing stuff.”"   
   >   
   > If this be true then the tests are missing 20-30% of the info From saliva   
   > tests. So all may not be as it seems. It is only a test of a likelihood a   
   > best guess type of thing. Compound that with the spit tests of a husband and   
   > wife and that can compound the error significantly and a good statistician   
   > will confirm that. Yeah, science is end all be all. Who are ya gonna believe?   
   >   
      
   you can give another fluid, that is whiteish. that's 100%..   
   actually you have meiosis there, so there would be slight genetic   
   variation. anyway, i think 100% dna can be gatehered from spit.   
      
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