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World Service,11 May 2001,26 mins

Tracking Human Migration by Goat DNA

Science In Action

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What goat genetics tell us about how and when they were domesticated and also about human migration. Tell-tale traces of lithium 6 show that a star in the constellation Hydra might have "consumed" one of its planets. What use is a micro-rocket, the size of a fingernail? New discoveries about the relationship between infections and tumors.

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