Contact: Hilary Glover
hilary.glover@biomedcentral.com
44-020-319-22370
BioMed Central

Polish General Wladyslaw Sikorski (1881 to 1943) (1 of 2)

Caption: A new method of establishing hair and eye color from modern forensic samples can also be used to identify details from ancient human remains, finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open-access journal Investigative Genetics.

Credit: Jolanta Draus-Barini, Susan Walsh, Ewelina Pospiech, Tomasz Kupiec, Henryk Glab, Wojciech Branicki and Manfred Kayser

Usage Restrictions: None

Related news release: What did our ancestors look like?