This is raising my skeptic hackles a little and I would love someone with more knowledge to let me know if there’s a good reason for me to be a little dubious.
This is raising my skeptic hackles a little and I would love someone with more knowledge to let me know if there’s a good reason for me to be a little dubious.
Well, it has a source: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.0316
And https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37434527/ too.
I was doubtful about the 25,000 years ago, because while I knew the date of the first humans in the Americas keeps getting pushed back, I didn’t realize it was as far back as 25,000 years. But the actual journal article does mention that time frame.
I don’t know enough about the topic to know if I should question their methodology, though.
It’s probable. The dates look good and they used a lot of them. Little to no mixing. Wouldn’t be surprised to be honest. Hopefully they’ll do some DNA work on them.