Timeline for How much could a biologist tell about an unknown creature from just a tooth?
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| Sep 13, 2020 at 1:55 | answer | added | user2352714 | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 13, 2020 at 1:50 | comment | added | JBH | (a) What technology is enjoyed by the biologist? Current day? Near/far future? (b) How long between the last living moment of the tooth and when the biologist begins to examine it? (Less will be gained from a petrified tooth than an extracted-an-hour-ago tooth.) (c) How far from the "terrestrial norm" is the creature in question? Is it from a completely alien biome, or is is terrestrial but fictional? | |
| Sep 13, 2020 at 1:30 | comment | added | DKNguyen | You need something similar but more complete to make inferences from. Or a cloning machine that works with the "genetic code" of said creature. | |
| Sep 13, 2020 at 1:29 | history | asked | Samuel Hope | CC BY-SA 4.0 |