TED Talks

Christina Warinner: Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque

TV-PG
2012 • E30    Apr 20, 2012    15m
Imagine what we could learn about diseases by studying the history of human disease, from ancient hominids to the present. But how? TED Fellow Christina Warinner is an achaeological geneticist, and she's found a spectacular new tool -- the microbial DNA in fossilized dental plaque.

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