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doomgiver98 t1_j9x5d2w wrote

That's a large range of dates.

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Edge_of_the_Wall t1_j9xpv6c wrote

As u/terribleidea27 mentioned, the reason for this wide range is the fact that you can’t see in DNA how old it is, you need to combine all different kinds of data and make educated guesses. You can’t just say there’s x mutations so there’s y times x years divergence between these two lines.

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