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Tiny 'alien' skeleton proven to be a tiny human via DNA

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  1. GRENDEL

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    Think the guy with the documentary believed it was an "alien" but it was discovered to be human at Stanford.

    He's a more detailed article about the test;

    http://www.livescience.com/29176-alien-looking-skeleton-poses-medical-mystery.html

    "While the jury is out regarding the mutations that cause the deformity, and there is a real discrepancy in how we account for the apparent age of the bones … every nucleotide I've been able to look at is human," researcher Garry Nolan, professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford School of Medicine, told LiveScience. "I've only scratched the surface in the analysis. But there is nothing that jumps out so far as to scream 'nonhuman.'"


    http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/faculty/Garry_Nolan/
     

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