The phrase "ancient information" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to knowledge, data, or facts that are very old or from a distant past.
Example: "The ancient information found in the ruins provided valuable insights into the civilization's way of life."
Alternatives: "historical data" or "archaic knowledge".
But Dr. Koonin thinks the trees hold very ancient information, even if their dates are not certain.
Thus, the amount of predigested ancient information bearing on antecedent events may vary from sophisticated literary to scrupulous epigraphic or may be wholly lacking or largely valueless.
Particularly mobile elements that constantly co-evolve in genomes encrypt recent and ancient information of their host's history.
Although all of the three domains of life have a considerable amount of intrinsic disorder, modern species have evolved so effectively that ancient information is no longer easy to retrieve.
Prof Sykes compared the ancient genetic information with DNA from 20 living residents of Cheddar village and found two matches - including history teacher Adrian Targett, who became closely connected with the discovery.
Ancient genetic information has been extremely difficult to sequence, for at least two reasons.
Despite its ability to access genuine ancient sequence information, the oligonucleotide spiking approach tested here could not be recommended for sequencing ancient DNA extracts unless further developments are performed in order to optimize the filtering of oligonucleotide sequences and to prevent the shifts observed both in base composition and sequence diversity.
JG: I think you're unusually empathic to imagine ancient complaints about information overload, but of course you're right.
Fossils and other structural and chemical details of ancient rocks provide information useful to evolutionary biologists and historical geologists, but ancient atmospheres, "mere vapours," have not left such substantial remnants.
Because glaciers must originate above the snowline, a survey of the elevations of ancient cirques provides information on climatic change and on the former position of the snow line.
GCN is the most widely used recording method for ancient Chinese musical information, employed by a significant number of musical works, including all Kunqu Opera scores.
