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Ötzi the Iceman’s DNA Reveals a Living Relative 5,000 Years Later

vkou: The modern man was not a descendant of Otzi - he just had a common ancestor that lived two thousand years before Otzi.If you go far enough back, I am also a relative of Otzi, through mitochondrial Eve.

kitd: There's a similar story about a modern relative of Cheddar Man, this one going back 10000 years. Even more incredibly, the modern relative lives just down the road from where the ancient ancestor was found.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-family-link-that-reac...

vkou: That man is a direct descendant. The man in the article is not.

netsharc: Did Courtney Eberhard, Senior Marketing Specialist at FamilyTreeDNA, use AI to write this article? It reads like it.

alephnerd: > use AI to write this articleWhile I understand you retracted your assumption that someone used AI to write their response, I feel the increasingly gratuitous leveling of "AI Ghostwriting" accusations is detrimental to HN and writing as a whole - plenty of humans can write write in cohesive passive tense (and in fact, plenty of us who did really well in our writing classes do so), and more critically, if the underlying thesis and argument provided by the article holds true who cares if it's written by a human or AI?