Tom Booth: Cheddar Man and Beyond

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Tom Booth: Cheddar Man and Beyond

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Tom Booth is an English archaeologist who has had great timing in his career, as he’s been riding the massive wave of ancient DNA findings out of Britain over the past decade. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6520225/

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Razib Khan engages a diverse array of thinkers on all topics under the sun. Genetics, history, and politics. See: http://razib.substack.com/

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Tom Booth: Cheddar Man and Beyond: Tom Booth is an English archaeologist who has had great timing in his career, as he’s been riding the massive wave of ancient DNA findings out of Britain over the past decade. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6520225/ by Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
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Tom Booth: Cheddar Man and Beyond

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