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Monday, October 17, 2016

Fossils and Genealogy

Today's webcomic from XKCD


Just like fossil evidence might give scientists of the future an incomplete picture of spiders, genealogists have to remember to ask ourselves what's missing, when looking at documents we find in archives. There could be important information about our ancestors (such as spider webs) that hasn't been preserved.

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