And that has Prof Stolper and the rest of the rover science team leaning (with a lot of caveats) towards a classification that sits on a well-established sequence of alkaline igneous rocks - one that goes by the name "mugearite".

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His time trialling needs room for improvement to push for a podium place, as does that of team-mate Juan Miguel Mercado, the other major hope in the general classification, who has so far failed to live up to his early promise.

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The team also applied their method to the Pentateuch, and were able to verify the general scholarly classification of those books into Priestly and non-Priestly sources with over 90% agreement with the current scholarly consensus.

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