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Ancient DNA Secrets
The Infinite Monkey Cage
The DNA of Richard III
The DNA that each of us carries is a very complex mixture of just some of our ancestors. You start to lose the DNA from any one of your ancestors at about six generations. Richard III left no known living descendants, so we had to use DNA passed down through the generations in a really simple way. And there's two pieces of DNA that are passed downthrough the generations in this really simple way: mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome. We found female line relatives of Richard III by tracing his family tree on Google. But they didn't have all the references for it which was super duper important because what if I don't get a DNA match? How I know it's not just the tree
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