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Human DNA in Ancient Excrement, the Scoop on the Poop
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by Albert Milliron | April 4, 2008 at 07:24 am
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Human DNA in Ancient Excrement, Here's the Poop
Here is proof that it is very difficult to get rid of a bunch of crap. Ever ask, "how long you had that crap?" Been told, throw that crap out. George Carlin used to say, "you don't take a crap, you leave one". Well scientists are examining some crap that was LEFT over 14,300 years ago. What they found excited them, Human DNA! The Excrement was found in Oregon caves. The Native-American folklore may be true that that the Native-Americans observed the volcano collapse in southern OR nearly 11,500 years ago, which is now called Crater Lake. This is interesting as the anthrpologist says this is some of the oldest Human DNA found in the America'
EUGENE, Ore., April 3 (UPI) -- Researchers recovered human DNA dating back 14,300 years from dried excrement found in Oregon's Paisley Caves.Anthropologist Dennis Jenkins of the University of Oregon said the DNA is the oldest ever found in the New World, the university said Thursday in a release. Jenkins and an international team of scientists said the DNA has apparent genetic ties to Siberia or Asia.
The findings are published online in Science Express.
"The Paisley Cave material represents, to the best of my knowledge, the oldest human DNA obtained from the Americas," Eske Willerslev, director of the Centre for Ancient Genetics at Denmark's University of Copenhagen, said in a statement. "Other pre-Clovis sites have been claimed, but no human DNA has been obtained, mostly because no human organic material had been recovered."
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Albert Milliron
Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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at 07:36 on April 4th, 2008
politisite, I like this story. Interesting and disgusting...
at 08:14 on April 4th, 2008
Great headline, politisite. I agree with Amy...interesting and disgusting about sums it up. What kind of information will they be able to get?
at 09:15 on April 4th, 2008
Can they tell if the excrement was actually scared out of whomever left it for posterity?
at 15:16 on April 4th, 2008
if they can trace the dna to the modern family, then they can be told to go and clean up their damned mess!!
at 15:51 on April 4th, 2008
A perfect way the human geno program can be used
at 22:47 on April 4th, 2008
I wonder, if the crime has gone old already ;-)
at 22:46 on April 4th, 2008
I think that our estimations related to human history are not on strong base and we are going to see news like this a lot more.