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    Rewriting history

    Mar 20, 2022 2 minutes
    by Bob Brockie

    New DNA techniques enable geneticists to rewrite big chunks of human history, which were previously known only from bones, artefacts and written records.

    Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo has been at the forefront of this research. In 1997, he led a team that sequenced the first mitochondrial DNA (inherited from the mother) from a Neanderthal fossil. Later, he led another team that sequenced

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