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Octavus t1_jbp1pre wrote
The Y chromosome is unable to perform recombination so most damage is unable to be repaired. This causes loss of genetic information overtime, if the genes were critical to life the animal would be unable to reproduce. So only genetic losses that are no/low negatively impactful can be passed on.
Octavus t1_j97d735 wrote
Reply to comment by twohedwlf in Just with a sample of someone's DNA, can a lab tell the approximate age of a person? by Blakut
Median error when using multiple tissue samples is ~3.5 years but some tissues age faster and have higher error bars than others. Less than 1 year for bats.
DNA methylation age of human tissues and cell types
Measuring Animal Age with DNA Methylation: From Humans to Wild Animals
DNA methylation predicts age and provides insight into exceptional longevity of bats
Octavus t1_j7y4if7 wrote
Reply to TIL one of the earliest cetaceans was land-dwelling and had four long legs. by starofsavannah
I would have gone with the fact they evolved in what is now the Himalayas.
Octavus t1_j7m8l40 wrote
Reply to How many hepatitis viruses exist? by Juergenvonwuergen
Please note that hepatitis is a disease of the liver and not a family of viruses. The different hepatitis viruses are not related to each other in general, the only thing they have in common is that they all infect the liver.
Octavus t1_j7hb075 wrote
Reply to comment by Obsidian_monkey in Why are green and red laser pointers so cheap and available, but yellow ones not so much? by SurprisedPotato
One doesn't need lasers for that, as long as the medium is linear the mixing of light is just superposition. It is no different than transmitting multiple RF signals across multiple different channels at once.
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Octavus t1_j66xgg9 wrote
Reply to comment by mfb- in Would someone whis never seen animation in their life be able to recognize animated humans? by DelVoid
Humans also see faces and silhouettes everywhere, from clouds to coffee to toast. We are pattern recognition machines and are preprogrammed for certain patterns.
Octavus t1_j5xkomo wrote
America and the Philippines need to exchange eggs for onions.
Octavus t1_j25ymfi wrote
Reply to comment by Additional-Fee1780 in What is the ‘widest’ ancestral generation? by vesuvisian
They have not been completely isolated for 50,000 years, there has been several periods of limited contact.
The most significant is ~10,000 years ago was when Australia was finally culturally split from New Guinea, there is also linguistic evidence as 90% of Australian languages are within the same family and split only a few thousand years ago. However this is before the isopoint so not related.
What is important is genetic and trade evidence between India, South East Asia, and the northwest cost of Australia. This trade and gene flow occurred ~4,300 years and gave enough time for Australia and Tasmania to become completely mixed in the 1,000-3,000 years before the contact.
This is technically only evidence of India -> Australia but the evidence points towards continue contact and not a one off event. Continued contact points to the people returning from Australia to the homelands which allows for gene flow the other direction. It simply takes one person to make the trip and have descendants.
The dingo has only been in Australia for 4,000-10,000 years. If Australians have been isolated for 50,000 years where did this non-native animal come from?
Genome-wide data substantiate Holocene gene flow from India to Australia
Octavus t1_j24z5w5 wrote
Reply to comment by thephoton in What is the ‘widest’ ancestral generation? by vesuvisian
Their ancestry would spread to Alaska present day Alaska on only a few hundred years. Paleo Eskimo, who lives from Russia through Alaska into Greenland. They acted as the bridge between the old and new worlds 4,500 and 1,500 years ago.
The world has been much more interconnected than what most would believe. It takes only one person after complete mixing to spread an entire continent of ancestry. Do not underestimate just how much mixing occurs in 1,000 years, that is enough time to completely mix all of Europe.
Octavus t1_j20c6b6 wrote
Reply to comment by thephoton in What is the ‘widest’ ancestral generation? by vesuvisian
There isn't believed to be anyone left in the Americas or Tasmania who does not have any European ancestry from the last 500 years.
Going the other direction Paleo Eskimo bridged the gap for a while between the Americas and Asia. Their culture spanned from Russia through Alaska into Greenland.
There was a continuous but some gene flow between Australia and South East Asia. Any other isolated groups of humans have only been isolated for a few hundred years.
Octavus t1_j1wgus9 wrote
Reply to comment by WilliamMorris420 in What is the ‘widest’ ancestral generation? by vesuvisian
He has the same mitochondrial DNA haplotype as Cheddar Man, which isn't passed down by males so isn't actually evidence at all that he is a descendant of Cheddar Man. Only that the share the same female ancestor.
Octavus t1_j1wd7i8 wrote
Reply to comment by WilliamMorris420 in What is the ‘widest’ ancestral generation? by vesuvisian
Cheddar Man lived before the human isopoint, if he has one living descendant then every single person on the planet is also his descendant. At some point 7,300 to 5,300 years ago if someone had a living descendant, then all of humanity is their descendant.
Octavus t1_j1j7ik4 wrote
Reply to comment by PatrickKieliszek in Are people in the international space station experiencing time faster than us? by [deleted]
Wikipedia has a handy graph showing the effect of general and special relativity for orbiting satellites in circular orbits. This highlights what you and others are describing.
Octavus t1_j0xg43h wrote
Reply to comment by Captain-Barracuda in How do X-rays “compress” a nuclear fusion pellet? by i_owe_them13
In a real power plant using this technology there would be a stream of target beads. Every reaction is independent of each other.
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Reply to comment by bruceleroy99 in Have living things always had an immune system? How did they survive / evolve to deal with diseases, and how does that compare to modern immune systems? by bruceleroy99
There are also viroids which are even simpler than viruses. They are simply a circular strand of RNA, that is it. However they are still able to infect plants, use their cellular machinery to create more copies, and spread.
Octavus t1_iyjj33a wrote
Reply to comment by cjheaford in Do we have any compounds or materials on Earth that compared to the rest of the universe is incredibly rare? by SwordArtOnlineIsGood
Beyond the R process there has been atleast one natural nuclear fission reactor which can produce some additional plutonium.
Octavus t1_is6fwvr wrote
Reply to comment by coyote-1 in Scientists have proved goldfish do have good memories and are able to navigate their surroundings. A team from Oxford University trained nine fish to travel 70cm (2.3ft) and back, receiving a food reward at the end. The study disproves the long-held belief goldfish have little or no memory. by Tardigradelegs
The study was not about memory, it was studying distance estimation. The actual title is Distance estimation in the goldfish (Carassius auratus). The BBC just made up a totally different title.
Octavus t1_is6fl3a wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Scientists have proved goldfish do have good memories and are able to navigate their surroundings. A team from Oxford University trained nine fish to travel 70cm (2.3ft) and back, receiving a food reward at the end. The study disproves the long-held belief goldfish have little or no memory. by Tardigradelegs
The paper is not studying goldfish memory and the BBC article's title is just wrong. The actual title is Distance estimation in the goldfish (Carassius auratus).
They were studying how goldfish estimate distance swam, which apparently is via visual references.
Octavus t1_ircq1cf wrote
Reply to comment by shiftdnb in TIL about the foreign accent syndrome (FAS), which is a speech disorder that causes a sudden change to speech so that a native speaker is perceived to speak with a “foreign” accent. FAS is usually caused by damage to the brain from a traumatic injury or a stroke. by Imaginary_Emu3462
It sounds more like you are code switching, it is completely normal behavior. Some people do it stronger than others but we all do it, even if just switching between family, friends, or coworkers.
Octavus t1_jdsj58i wrote
Reply to comment by ronflair in Around 550 million years ago the earth's magnetic field almost collapsed, but then strengthened a few million years later. Scientists say this may have been due to the formation of the inner core. But why exactly would that cause the magnetic field to get stronger? by somethingX
You are forgetting that the atmosphere is responsible for the bulk of Earth's radiation shielding and is equal to about 10 meters of water.