#3252: Ancestral Genomes
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[Cueball and Megan are shown, with Megan using a pointer stick to point at a diagram on a poster. The diagram features tree/root structure with a single node at the top end, branching solid lines leading to more nodes across several levels in most cases, but with at least one node that does not propogate this way and some dotted lines linking down from some branches into other ones. The increasingly branching lower tracks becoming so dense that it almost looks like dark triangles at the bottom of the diagram's last obvious bifurcations. Small and unreadable labels/symbols feature next to most linking lines, and more extensive (but still totally unreadable) information is placed below each of the lowermost 'triangular' terminating clumps.]
Megan: Our admixture analysis showed that these genotypes arose in the ancestral population almost entirely through sexual intercourse.
Megan: Upon realizing this, we of course promptly deleted all our data.
Off-screen voice: What? Why??
Megan: We're not weirdos!
Megan: Jeez, give these people some privacy!
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business.