aDNA from the antipode (Hair)

[Daryl Habel]

Friends,

It must be the week for ancient DNA news stories, this exploration from the upper body, specifically they claim to have samples of DNA from 60-64,000 year old bison, horse, and humans..... and that protected by keratin, the samples are "much less degraded" and therefore less likely to be contaminated than bone and teeth samples.

Well anyway, it looks like promising research news, and the news story can be read at:
CLICK HERE FOR THE URL

Approaching, but not climbing onto my soapbox, I might point out that one of the "Related Articles" links, located at the bottom of the news story UrL, has some additional  things to say about hotspot mutations in ancient DNA, at:

CLICK HERE

Dar
[still on the ground-floor where DNA is concerned]

[lagarvelho]

Dar:

Thanks for ferreting out those stories.  They are both *very* interesting. And they might affect the future course of ancient genetic research.
Anne G