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Monday, March 7, 2022

“Largest Family Tree” Is Helping Trace the Entirety of Human History [Ancient Origins, March 2022]

Title:
“Largest Family Tree” Is Helping Trace the Entirety of Human History
 
Published:
Ancient Origins, 3 March 2022
 
From the article:
Researchers from Oxford University’s Big Data Institute have engaged in the most Herculean of tasks and combined ancient and modern DNA to record the largest family tree ever made, dating back a whopping 100,000 years! Published in the journal Human Evolution earlier this week, the study allows individuals to ascertain who their far removed and distant ancestors are, and also links to people alive today.