they write in the paper. "Humans are the only example we know of, and our industrial civilization has lasted (so far) roughly 300 years (since, for example, the beginning of mass production methods).

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Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

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Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.