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A groundbreaking new DNA analysis has shed light on the true appearance and ancestry of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy found frozen in the Tyrolean Alps. ....
The Atlantic A Revolution Is Sweeping the Science of Ancient Diseases The study of DNA from millennia-old bacteria and viruses is revealing new secrets about the plague and other epidemics. Getty / The Atlantic When Johannes Krause was a graduate student working on the Neanderthal genome in the 2000s, so much of the DNA recovered from the ancient bone fragments came from everything else: the skin cells of excavators and scientists, the bacteria on those humans, the microbes in the soil. To get to Neanderthal DNA, you had to junk the rest. Once scientists figured out how, they rushed to sequence not just Neanderthal DNA but also ancient human DNA, which together have been rewriting the early history of our species. ....