Denisovan Gallery: Tracing the Genetics of Human Ancestors

Modern Laboratory

DNA extraction laboratory

(Image credit: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

From the dirt of an ancient cave to the blue lights of a modern lab. This is the DNA extraction laboratory where scientists pulled the Denisovan girl's genome out of bone and tooth.

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