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Environmentally Induced Heritable Changes in Flax
Published on: January 26, 2011
Comment on "30,000-year-old wild flax fibers"
C Bergfjord1, S Karg, A Rast-Eicher
1Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Allegaten 55, 5007 Bergen, Norway.
Abstract:
Kvavadze et al. (Brevia, 11 September 2009, p. 1359) identified fiber samples as 30,000-year-old flax based on a comparison with modern flax fibers analyzed by compound microscope and on the presence of dislocations/nodes in the fibers. We argue that this evidence is not sufficient to identify the fibers as flax.

