Explain the following statement: science is self-correcting

It continues to change based on new ideas

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Explanation:

According to the research done on the denisovan bones found in the siberia cave, the interbreeding between denisovans and homo sapiens might have took place around 44,000 years ago. The research shows what percentage of the genome of the people are similar to the denisovans and where these percentages change.

Melanesians share around 4 to 6 percent of Denisovan genome and this number goes down to around 0.2 percent among Asians and Native Americans.

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