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Archive Home > 2007 > July > 01 > A bush with many branches

A bush with many branches

DNA is aiding fossil hunters as they search through the diverse human family tree

By John Noble Wilford / The Bulletin
July 1, 2007

Time was, fossils and a few stone artifacts were about the only means that scientists had of tracing the lines of early human evolution. And gaps in such material evidence were frustratingly wide.

When molecular biologists joined the investigation some 30 years ago, their techniques of genetic....

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