Beth Shapiro
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But that's not what they did.
I mean, a chihuahua looks different from a Great Dane, but their DNA is a lot the same.
I think it, well, this is me speculating at this point.
And there was at one point there was a test, a blood test that they had done where they were looking for markers in the blood.
And there were five different markers and they tested about 150 different animals.
And they published a paper saying, oh, look, we tested all these animals.
None of them have all of the markers.
One of them has one of the markers.
And we just think the test is bad.
I don't remember what we were talking about.
Diverged from Neanderthals.
Just limited, just like everything else in paleoanthropology.
There was a really cool—this is just about how we don't know anything.