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Blimey a million years....I wonder what lies hidden in those melting glaciers
I think they have already found preserved human remains in ice & peat bogs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_body


In ice top & below in peat bogs.

This is fascinating reading.
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The "story" of Ötzi (aged 5000+), in particular, I revisit annually, since his death is surrounded by so much speculation.

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She would have been wearing clothes at that time, the temperature was too low to do otherwise.
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I believe that our DNA is the "real" us. All species struggle to push their DNA into the future and to approach immortality. Our bodies are just vehicles, we eat to stay alive and have sex to reproduce all to the benefit of the DNA. If we are successful, we pass the DNA on to the next generation, if not, we are dead ends. It makes more sense than the immortality offered by religion.
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Animals do the same, all animals, Savvy. We had to bring in a reason for it all, animals just live, reproduce & die.
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Originally Posted by Savvy ->
I believe that our DNA is the "real" us. All species struggle to push their DNA into the future and to approach immortality. Our bodies are just vehicles, we eat to stay alive and have sex to reproduce all to the benefit of the DNA. If we are successful, we pass the DNA on to the next generation, if not, we are dead ends. It makes more sense than the immortality offered by religion.
That idea of evolution by genes (= DNA) was already spouted around when I studied biology in the seventies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
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Animals do the same, all animals, Savvy. We had to bring in a reason for it all, animals just live, reproduce & die.
Plants, bacteria and fungi do the same. Before I eat my salad I give it last rites.
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Re: DNA from Stone Age woman obtained 6,000 years on

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Plants, bacteria and fungi do the same. Before I eat my salad I give it last rites.
Yes, they are living creatures too.
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Yes, they are living creatures too.
For goodness sake don't tell my vegetarian daughter that she will end up with nothing at all to eat....Poor Mr Lettuce
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Re: DNA from Stone Age woman obtained 6,000 years on

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Plants, bacteria and fungi do the same. Before I eat my salad I give it last rites.
Originally Posted by Tiffany ->
Yes, they are living creatures too.
Originally Posted by summer ->
For goodness sake don't tell my vegetarian daughter that she will end up with nothing at all to eat....Poor Mr Lettuce

It is life Jim, but not as we know it.
 
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