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179 | David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Ancient Dna Field

The ancient dna field has been around for maybe forty years, but it's only become really serious in the last ten years. And is your team actually going out there and digging up bones, or due partner with the archaeologists who are digging bones? It's almost all partnership with hundreds of archaeologists around the world. They'll throw you a bone, quite literally, and you will take out as dna. Is this something that we've known how to do for a long time, or is that part of what is new in and fun?

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