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Ancient DNA Is Rewriting What We Thought We Knew About Plague, People, and Time

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Plague was killing people 5,500 years ago, long before rats and cities entered the picture. And new findings suggest humans made it back to Britain after the Ice Age 500 years sooner than scientists believed.

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