Dr Pontus Skoglund, winner of this year’s Balfour Lecture for early career researchers, uses ancient DNA to unlock the secrets of human evolution, old diseases and population migration.
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Benjamin Vernot: Digging for DNA in cave dirt
Benjamin Vernot is searching for traces of ancient humans by analysing DNA in cave dirt.
Kieren Mitchell: Direwolves and their DNA
Researchers are studying ancient DNA to understand the evolution and extinction of direwolves - yes, they’re real!