Hunting the Double Helix: How DNA Is Solving Puzzles of the Past
By Anna Meyer.
Description
Some mysteries were never meant to be solved - or were they? In Hunting the Double Helix, Anna Meyer provides a fascinating glimpse into one of the newest and most intriguing areas of scientific research. Any DNA that still exists in the remains of living things after their death is called ancient DNA'. But the death doesn't have to be recent - the DNA could be from an organism that died a few days ago, or from an extinct species, such as the Australian thylacine or the New Zealand moa, or from one that died tens of thousands of years ago, such as a Neanderthal or a mammoth. That ...
ISBN(s)
1741141079, 9781588268075, 9781741141078
