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Dating ancient human samples using the recombination clock
2015-07-27
Abstract excerpt
The study of human evolution has been revolutionized by inferences from ancient DNA analyses. Key to these is the reliable estimation of the age of ancient specimens. The current best practice is radiocarbon dating, which relies on characterizing the decay of radioactive carbon isotope ( 14 C), and is applicable for dating up to 50,000-year-old samples. Here, we introduce a new genetic method that uses recombinat...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 67c16719-bdf2-53b9-9b83-ea0c8032e8de
- DOI
- 10.1101/023341