“A quartet of Canadian anthropologists published two papers this week that provide remarkable new detective insights into the fate of the 1845 Franklin Expedition , which saw 134 men set out in search of the fabled Northwest Passage only to vanish in the High Arctic. Both papers are products of the 21st-century genetics revolution — the equivalent of solving cold cases by matching DNA recovered from old human remains with samples from living descendants. Read More
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