Biocodicology - A Deeper Dive

[Mark Knowles]

We may find a few hundred skeletons of people who died in the 1400s that also match.  If we are lucky, those skeletons will all be from the same town in Switzerland or whatever.  But, even then, we could not conclude that one of them was the VMS author, could we?

Some matches will be closer than others. The greater the amount of common DNA between two sample will give us an idea of how closely related they are. An exact match will make the person the individual one is searching for or their identical twin.