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1. Two articles were mentioned in the story. The first, titled "Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes and Associated Studies" by lead author Melba Ketchum and her coauthors, was published in the journal DeNovo. The second, titled "Genetic Analysis of Hair Samples Attributed To Yeti, Bigfoot, and Other Anomalous Primates" by Bryan Sykes and his team, was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. T e two reports apply similar techniques using similarly obtained samples but reach dif erent conclusions. Summarize the main conclusions of each.

2. Credibility is an important concept both in science and in courts-of-law. Which of the two publications is more credible, and why?

3. Occam's Razor, also known as the Principle of Parsimony, can be useful when trying to determine which explanation, among two or more, is most likely to be correct. What is the Principle of Parsimony? Apply the principle to the dif erent explanations of ered by Ketchum's team and Syke's team. Which of the competing explanations best passes the razor test, and why?

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