Ancient DNA

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What Wikipedia says

Ancient DNA (aDNA) is DNA isolated from ancient sources (typically specimens, but also environmental DNA). Due to degradation processes (including cross-linking, deamination and fragmentation) ancient DNA is more degraded in comparison with present-day genetic material.

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Image: Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.