Forensic Analysis May Have Solved Amelia Earhart Mystery
The 1937 disappearance of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, as she was attempting a grueling equatorial flight to circumnavigate the world, has been one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time. Professor emeritus Richard Jantz, of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville conducted a forensic analysis that suggests bones found on the South Pacific Island of […]
Studies Provide Fresh Insight into the Ancestry of Early Europeans
Two recently released studies have shed new light on ancient Europeans. Taking maternally-inherited mitochondrial DNA samples from bones and teeth of the skeletons of 364 people who lived about 5,000 years ago in what is now Central Europe, researchers in one study said that they were able to reconstruct the first detailed genetic history of […]