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Working with DNA

Evolutionary geneticist Matthias Meyer at body of work in the neat science lab at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology .

Analyzing the genome

Automated process generate DNA libraries and sequestrate DNA .

Ancient humans

Svante Pääbo , top author of the new study and director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig , stands with a reproduction of a Neanderthal skeleton .

Mingling populations

Drawing of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan Padre with their child , a girl , at Denisova Cave in Russia .

Denisova Cave discoveries

Denisova Cave discoveries

Denisova Cave discoveries

Denisova Cave discoveries

Photo of the right side of a lower jawbone (mandible). It is reddish brown and has several blackened teeth.

Skeleton of a Neanderthal-human hybrid emerging from the ground of a rock shelter

An illustration of a human and neanderthal facing each other

Fossil upper left jaw and cheekbone alongside a recreation of the right side from H. aff. erectus

Catherine the Great art, All About History 127

A digital image of a man in his 40s against a black background. This man is a digital reconstruction of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, which used reverse aging to see what he would have looked like in his prime,

Xerxes I art, All About History 125

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, All About History 124 artwork

All About History 123 art, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

Tutankhamun art, All About History 122

An image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system�s known dwarf planets, including the newly discovered 2017 OF201

an illustration showing a large disk of material around a star

a person holds a GLP-1 injector

A man with light skin and dark hair and beard leans back in a wooden boat, rowing with oars into the sea

an MRI scan of a brain

A photograph of two of Colossal�s genetically engineered wolves as pups.

two ants on a branch lift part of a plant