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Published: May 6, 2008
DNA analysis holds some answers, but not every claim is credible
By David Zizzo
Once upon a time in the Tuscany region of what would someday be known as Europe , a woman struggled to survive the Ice Age. Seventeen thousand years later, here I am — her direct descendant.

At least that's according to the inside of my cheek, and to a company in England that analyzed DNA from samples collected on a cotton swab that I rubbed in there. Using my personal mouth mucus, Oxford Ancestors concluded T...

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