On February 28, 1953, two scientists, James Watson and Francis Crick, announced they had figured out the structure of DNA.

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

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