DNA is particularly well preserved in hair — enabling the genome of a human to be sequenced, and his ancestry and appearance to be determined, from 4,000-year-old remains.
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Lambert, D., Huynen, L. Face of the past reconstructed. Nature 463, 739–740 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463739a
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