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How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins

Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history. When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev was a nobody. At least, that’s how it seemed to the budding evolutionary geneticist, who was unable to lay his hands on one of the few coveted fossils that might still co... [9677 chars]

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