Sentences with phrase «decay than bone»
Also, at that age the skeleton consists mostly of cartilage, which is more vulnerable to decay than bone.
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Still, Geigl agrees that DNA locked away in bones decays more slowly than lab experiments suggest: «The kinetics of DNA decay in solution means that we would not find any DNA in a 100,000 - year - old bone — but we do.»