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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Two videos - Somerton Man's identity could be revealed through use of 800,000 genetic markers & Prof Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide - The mystery of the Somerton Man

Title of video:
Somerton Man's identity could be revealed through use of 800,000 genetic markers 
 
Published:
Sky News Australia, 20 May 2021
 
Duration:
6:09
 
From the video description:
A 70-year-old South Australian mystery could soon be solved after the exhumation of a Somerton man from an Adelaide cemetery with a new police investigation attempting to identify the man who washed up on a beach in 1948.  
 
The University of Adelaide’s Professor Derek Abbott says the exhumation of the body will provide a “chance to access the man’s DNA” and identify him through genealogy by tracing 800,000 genetic markers. 
 
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Title of video:
Prof Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide - The mystery of the Somerton Man

Published:
rotaryadelaide, 24 March 2021

Duration:
26:19

From the video description:
Derek Abbott is a full professor of electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His interests are in the area of multidisciplinary electronic engineering and physics applied to complex systems. His research programs span a number of areas of including: photonics, energy policy, biomedical engineering, forensic genealogy, and computational neuroscience.