Archaeogenetics: Five Global Ethical Principles

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Analyzing ancient human genomes has proven to be a useful method to study relationships between people who lived in the past and populations living today. In the past decade alone, 6,000 individuals have been studied in this way. In this interview, archaeologist Philipp Stockhammer talks about the need to adopt a set of ethical guidelines for handling human remains on a global scale.

Publication: Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg, et al., Ethics of DNA research on human remains: five globally applicable guidelines, Nature (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04008-x

Original Story Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology