10-01-2022, 03:17 PM
I would have thought it might be possible to roughly date human DNA on the basis of comparison with the DNA of living people. For example if DNA is 300 years old you won't find anyone alive who is a very close relative of that person unless that person comes from a very isolated inbred community. A parent or a sibling will have a lot of DNA in common with an individual. So the more closely related the person is to some small number of people alive today the newer the DNA. So I wonder if on that basis there is some kind of mechanism for estimating roughly how many generations back the DNA goes and thereby roughly dating it. I also believe that some times marker genes can be used to date human DNA. I am not expert in this area, as I have said before, but those are my thoughts.
If the DNA is located somewhere where the scribe is much more likely to have left DNA than someone else then that greatly increases the likelihood that it is scribal DNA.
If the DNA is located somewhere where the scribe is much more likely to have left DNA than someone else then that greatly increases the likelihood that it is scribal DNA.