4,000-year-old sheep tooth (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

4,000-year-old sheep tooth

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4,000-year-old sheep tooth from which the Y. pestis genome was recovered.

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© Taylor Hermes

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