Thursday, September 22, 2011

Australian Aborigine's lock of hair unlocks history

The lock of hair was just what lead researcher Eske Willerslev needed to begin experiments with colleagues sequencing DNA to determine the migration routes of early humans into Australia.



An unknown British anthropologist had clipped the hair nearly a century ago from the head of a young Australian Aborigine and taken it to England, where it remained in three successive Cambridge University

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