>> All of which says only that you can possibly recover scattered 
>> fragments from say 5% of the animal's DNA? But, its **still** way more 
>> than thought possible, and enough to make "some" comparisons.
> 
> Plus, you have millions of copies of the DNA, and you can take 
> independent pieces of it and put them in the right order. Like having 
> 100 copies of a book, each with pages missing, and putting together one 
> good copy.

I'm sorry - I thought foscils were "rare"? ;-)

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