2025-11-14
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The big question is, what does this really tell us?
And what can we tell from someone's genome?
And that's what we're getting into on this special episode of The World the Universe and us from New Scientist.
I'm Dr.
Rowan Hooper and I'm joined by two of the lead figures on the documentary.
Cherry King is a geneticist at the University of Bath.
She's best known for the identification of the remains of Richard III a few years back now.
And Alex K is a historian of Nazi Germany based at Potsdam University in Germany.
Welcome both.
Hello.
Thank you, Rowan.
Now, Chiri, on the show,
you say you agonized about joining this project, and I just want to ask why.