IN his previous programmes, veterinary scientist Mark Evans has gone Inside Nature’s Giants and searched for Bigfoot, but this new series, Dead Famous DNA, sees him taking on his greatest challenge to date. He’s out to track down the last remains of some of history’s most important figures, from Napoleon to Marilyn Monroe, to find out what their DNA can tell us about their lives.
He’ll be drawing on the expertise of eminent scientists in the fields of forensic genetics, molecular archaeology, biochemistry, molecular biology and forensic osteoarcheology, but it also means dabbling in the somewhat murky world of the trade in human body parts.
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