Our guests will be two experts on studying ancient diseases with two different methods — using ancient DNA or studying fossil bones. (sciencemag.org)
But diagnosing ancient diseases from fossils is tricky for a number of reasons. (sciencemag.org)
The team believe their methodology can be used to unravel the transmission mysteries of other ancient diseases — such as human pubic lice, also introduced via an intermediate hominin from ancestral gorillas over 3 million years ago. (cam.ac.uk)