New Information from Ancient Genomes

摘要

At the Euroscience Open Forum meeting this June, one intriguing session addressed the topic of what can or cannot be learned from ancient DNA. Eske Willerslev, director of the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, discussed research published earlier this year in Nature. His recent studies reaffirm the truth of the old saying, "One man's trash is another man's treasure." Or, to put it in terms of evolutionary ge-nomics, "One research project's contamination is another project's trove of information."