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Wed 02 Feb 2010Scientists identify 4,000 year old man
Scientists have identified the physical characteristics of a man who lived 4,000 year ago using nothing more than a few strands of his hair.
They extracted DNA and built a near complete copy of his genome, the first time this has been done with ancient human remains.
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