stackyFACTSGeneticists can actually use the steady ticking of DNA mutations as a biological clock to trace our ancestry. It is deeply humbling to realize that our supposedly majestic evolution is basically just a metronome of continuous microscopic errors counting backward to the dawn of time.
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