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☆ Mummified baboons found in Egypt have puzzled scientists for 118 years. Now we finally might know how they got there and why.
  + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Mummified remains of baboons in Egypt found over a century ago have long puzzled researchers. AdvertisementAdvertisementNew research on the mysterious remains of mummified baboons, found far from their natural habitat over a hundred years ago in Egypt, has shed light on the sacred significance of the primates in the ancient Arabian Peninsula. Kopp's discovery is the first time ancient DNA from a mummified non-human primate has successfully been analyzed to this extent. The exact location of Punt, Kopp told Insider, has long puzzled researchers due to references to the town being found in significant texts and artwork but not found on existing maps. And they even mummified baboons, which any primatologist will tell you is puzzling."
Persons: —, Gisela Kopp, Kopp, Gabbanat, Patrick Ageneau Kopp, they're, Pesky, Nathaniel Dominy, Dominy, you'd, Thoth Organizations: Service, University of Konstanz, Musee des Confluences, Dartmouth College Locations: Egypt, Adulis, Eritrea —, Africa, Eritrea, Punt, Lyon, France, Qurud
☆ Oldest DNA reveals life in Greenland 2 million years ago
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
NEW YORK — Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland. With animal fossils hard to come by, the researchers extracted environmental DNA, also known as eDNA, from soil samples. Studying really old DNA can be a challenge because the genetic material breaks down over time, leaving scientists with only tiny fragments. In their study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, they compared the DNA to that of different species, looking for matches. He worked on the study that previously held the “oldest DNA” record, from a mammoth tooth around a million years old.
☆ The only thing Elon Musk understands about Twitter is how to kill it
  + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +15 min
Biologists, anthropologists, and information theorists do think that social networks, like Musk's bird app, show at least some signs of being flocks. "Elon's tweet is basically espousing the invisible hand of social behavior," Bak-Coleman says. In this construction, a social network might have become a collective superintelligence, had capitalists left it to its — our? Under Musk, Twitter has entered the dance-off phase. I'll be sad if the Twitter superintelligence starts singing a Kubrickian cover of "Daisy" and implodes into a pile of melting isolinear chips.
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