<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="padding: 10px 16px 21px;"><blockquote type="cite" __apple_fixed_attribute="true"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Apr 28, 2017, at 12:54 PM, J.R. Jones <<a href="mailto:mrjones2020@gmail.com">mrjones2020@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote type="cite" __apple_fixed_attribute="true"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:29 PM Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170426143033.htm" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170426143033.htm</font></a></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After reading _Strangers in a New Land: The First Americans_, I was willing to give credence to modern humans in the Americas around 30,000 years ago... that book does go over controversial funds like </span></font><h1 id="m_8357639786069986841section_0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><font color="#000000" size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pendejo Cave and Old Crow.</span></font></h1></div></div></blockquote><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Will they be able to test the DNA of a sample this old? </span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I don't believe current techniques can recover DNA under those conditions. There are old samples they've been recovered, but they were frozen. Remember, too, the finding is of mastodon bones. Maybe humans working them left some of their DNA behind, but that's a long shot. (Coprolites might be a better bet.)</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>