How to go back in time thanks to fossil DNA?
And how far?
Paleogeneticist Ludovic Orlando.
Kristoffer Finn / Stern - Kristoffer Finn
By: Caroline Lachowsky
1 min
Why is paleogenetics upsetting all our received ideas on the evolution and migrations of human and animal societies?
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Let's go back in time today in the DNA traces of our ancestors, who are not always what we think.
How does the study of fossil DNA, of ancient DNA - paleogenetics and its dazzling progress - disrupt all our received ideas on human evolution and migration, but also animal and plant?
And forces us to revisit our entire family album, much more mixed than we wanted to think ...
With
Ludovic Orlando
, doctor in paleogenetics, for his book
Fossil DNA, a time machine
published by Odile Jacob.
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