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Skulls that come from them know back to around the year five hundred from one. girl's probably had their heads down when they were still infants a custom still practiced in congo in the one nine hundred fifty s. to determine the origin of this cranial modification the researchers looked at d.n.a. evidence for i mean your a number of years ago we realized that we need to patrol part of the temporal bone the inner part of the skull which contains a lot of d.n.a. we've been able to get lots of information from it. it's a nice name that first we take a sample of bone from the skull and try to extr...

Together to create a portrait like this. >> talk to me, i was just going to say, talk to me about the science behind it. how you do this. >> sure. it's really building on information that is all sort of publicly available in science right now. so, i'm just drawing on research papers, things that people have published that link specific base pairs within the dna to specific traits. so, a lot of this information draws on association studies, which are just ways of looking at lots and lots of dna, lots and lots of people's dna. looking at the traits they have and creating correlations between the...

Genome. when you talk about mapping the human genome, you're talking about matching 3 billion base pairs, for example. here you have $100 million, so far less money. and there's trillions of neurons in the brain, jake. so this whole idea of mapping the brain, it's in some ways a much more audacious thing. and i think less well-defined. mapping the brain to what end is what a lot of scientists still want to know. we don't really know what some of the specific goals are. >> what do they expect to find? >> well, you know, i would liken this in some ways to when we think about putting a man on the...

It was a stroke of genius. an evolutionary leap of four million years from eight man to space travel kubrick showed it in a single culture half a century ago he said the space ship discovery on a mission to jupiter germany fermi's and from further is now celebrating the film that reinvented the science fiction genre from the normative side cannot base pairs realize that the film is one of a kind. and that in many aspects it can't be repeated if you're an aspect of doubt and if it is influence not only filmmakers but also graphic artists and designers product designers as well and all. when kub...