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Ancient DNA Secrets
The Infinite Monkey Cage
The Evolution of DNA
The first gene that my lab sequence was in 1981, I think, right at the beginning of all this. And it took 18 months to do one gene, which now probably can be done in 15 seconds. It's a remarkable thing that it's so fast now, isn't it? The oldest ancient DNA has been 2 million years old. But the oldest that I've dealt with is 14,000 years old.
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