Talk:Ancient DNA

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Part of the article is from Tom Gilbert's thesis, An Assessment of the Use of Human Samples in Ancient DNA Studies, but he has given permission for it to be posted. -- Kjkolb 11:18, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Verification

This article needs a section on verification. How do we know if the recovered DNA sequence is correct? - Connelly 09:01, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New article: Genetics of the Ancient World - Invitation to add content

For those who edit this page on ancient DNA you are invited to add relevant journal articles and short summaries of these articles as per ancient people groups as it bears upon the Genetics of the Ancient World. Please follow the existing format. This is a reference list with short summaries that refers back to main article pages on wikipedia.

Currently, I just put up a non-academic media source (National Geographic) on the ancient Phoenicians, but will add peer-reviewed journal articles and ask you to do the same (as well as media if relevant). Please try to make the summaries readable for the non-specialist as the purpose of this article is to help non-geneticists "wake-up" to how genetics impacts their discipline, etc. Great job on the aDNA article. regards, Hkp-avniel (talk) 18:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)