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A South Africa cave find suggests ancient DNA can survive heat far longer than expected
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Kim LaCapria
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Researchers have recovered 50,000-year-old DNA from a mountain reedbuck tooth in a South African cave, the oldest ever found in sub-Saharan Africa. This discovery challenges previous assumptions that heat prevents long-term DNA preservation in the region.
The finding suggested that in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, genetic samples could stay preserved for far longer than scientists once believed.
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