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Ancient DNA Secrets

The Infinite Monkey Cage

CHAPTER

The Importance of a DNA Test

Michael Ibsen and Wendy Daldic are 14 cousins twice removed through the female line. They should have identical or near identical mitochondrial DNA. And that should match the skeleton if it's Richard. But there wasn't a DNA match there. So they went to his mom, who agreed to take a DNA test for them. It was really interesting because when we published it, so it goes, you know, Richard the third and it goes up to his great granddad.

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