Professor of Anthropology Molly Zuckerman (IMAGE)

Mississippi State University

Professor of Anthropology Molly Zuckerman

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Mississippi State University Professor Molly Zuckerman and graduate student Lydia Bailey published an article in Science that examines new evidence from ancient DNA that pushes the origins of diseases closely related to syphilis back more than 5,000 years and strongly supports an American rather than European origin for a close relative of the disease.

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