• tyler@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    You can learn on extant animals which would give you real results, not extinct animals that you have no chance of confirming your findings.

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      1 month ago

      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)