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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

DNA doesn't tell you who a person is without having a sample from a person to compare it to... We'd be able to tell if they were human or not. That's about it.

Not only that, but afaik there isn't just 1 body interred there. It's a whole mess of unidentified bodies buried together.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And the gender. And whether they had chromosomal anomalies

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Unless there was a serious mixup, we already know the soldier was one of four randomly selected males.

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