Why It Might Be Time to Rethink the Human Family Tree
Anon84
13 points
6 comments
August 20, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
bibimsz
isn't it kind of suspect that there was all this diversity and branching conveniently right up to today and then it stopped. seems ideological.
m3047
Research is coming out specifically regarding the COVID genome which suggests missing sequence data was routinely filled in from baseline reference sequences. In turn, the reference sequences suggest during later analysis constant reversion back to the baseline. These gaps are the (dot) product of limitations of PCR * computer processing algorithms. No reason to believe the problem is limited to COVID.