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A golden age of ancient DNA science begins

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imageA reconstruction of a male our evolutionary cousin the Neanderthals (Modified from an image by Cicero Moraes).Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

If I had taken a straw poll among anthropologists 10 years ago asking them how far genetic research would come in the next decade, I doubt anyone would have come close to predicting the big impact fossil DNA work...

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