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sybylla

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8. Because the data necessarily encompasses lives lived thousands of years ago...
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 03:21 PM
Jul 2024

...and so much data has been lost, the data set cannot be complete.

This reminds me when all the white European scientists said that New World populations could not have crossed before the last ice age. Now, a combination of new scientific analyses show they have been here for as long as 33,000 years.

Clearly, you and I are going nowhere. So have a nice life.

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