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Subject: Re: Famous medieval DNA - the Plantagenet project
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 09:47:13 +0100 (BST)
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> <<In a message dated 08/03/07 17:59:15 Pacific Standard Time,
> writes:
> In one
> case, the finding that a Plant did not match the main Plant family
> reinforced the idea that his surname traced back to an IGI record for an
> unmarried mother. >>
>
> ------------------
> Circular reasoning.
>
> Will Johnson
>
What can I say? Y-DNA testing isn't logically perfect. Einstein hated the
non-determinism of quantum mechanics but it won through. What individuals
prefer depends partly on whether they are experimentalists or theoretical
logicians or hold to some other philosophical tradition. Accumulating
evidence from various techniques is fairly standard.
John
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