Year in review: Old humans reveal secrets

DNA analyses rewrite stories of ancient times

37,000-year-old skeleton

WRITTEN IN BONE  DNA from a 37,000-year-old skeleton found at the Kostenki archaeological site in Russia supports recent findings and offers new ones about the history of human evolution.

Peter the Great Museum

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Scientists probed the complete genetic secrets of an unprecedented number of ancient humans this year, revealing insights into how people, ideas and disease spread around the world.