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minus-squaretylerlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·2 months agoYou can learn on extant animals which would give you real results, not extinct animals that you have no chance of confirming your findings.
minus-squareMotoAsh@piefed.socialBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·2 months agoSure you can. They found dna sequences. If they found enough to build a complete genome, they could compare. (yes yes I know they cannonically did not have enough, but you can learn a lot from an incomplete picture)
You can learn on extant animals which would give you real results, not extinct animals that you have no chance of confirming your findings.
Sure you can. They found dna sequences. If they found enough to build a complete genome, they could compare. (yes yes I know they cannonically did not have enough, but you can learn a lot from an incomplete picture)