This episode explores new research, which has found that head lice can help us to analyse the remains of our ancestors.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘What DNA Knows’ by Charlotte Pence here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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01/03/22 • 7 min
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