When Gideon Lewis-Krauss’s article, “Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths—Or Falling into Old Traps?: Geneticists have begun using old bones to make sweeping claims
about the distant past. But their revisions to the human story are making some scholars of prehistory uneasy,” was the cover story in the New York Times Magazine in January it created a stir in the public, and in the scientific and anthropological worlds. Lewis-Krauss reported on how new techniques for analyzing DNA from ancient bones is revolutionizing paleontology and profoundly reshaping our understanding of ancient history.
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