This week on Crystallise: Ash discusses some incredible new research that extracted DNA from cave soil to give us an insight into how Neanderthals lived over 100,000 years ago, and Rosie explores the science and ethics behind creating human-monkey chimeric embryos.   

Episode sources: 

• Neanderthal DNA extracted from cave dirt shows population movements 100,000 years ago. 
• Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments. 
• First monkey–human embryos reignite debate over hybrid animals. 
• Human-Monkey Chimeras Shed Light on Development. 
• As scientists move closer to making part human, part animal organisms, what are the concerns?

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AhDah Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).   
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