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Ancient DNA Secrets

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The Crick: A New Way to Find Out Your Great-Great-Grandfather Wasn't Who You Thought They Were

As part of the ancient genomics project, or working on the Crick, is that we're sequencing skeletons from even quite recent times. And Paul finds out that basically all of the data that we generate is made publicly available. So this is actually introducing a whole new way of finding out that your great-great-great grandfather wasn't who you thought they was. But hopefully not for too much longer, because we want to drive on to do me.

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