Eske Willerslev combines Arctic escapades with meticulous lab work in his quest to pull ancient DNA from the ice. Rex Dalton talks to the adventurer about extracting the first ancient human genome.
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Dalton, R. Palaeogenetics: Icy resolve. Nature 463, 724–725 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463724a
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