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......."Willerslev, an evolutionary geneticist, spent his early adult life as a fur trapper discovering the remote rawness of northeastern Siberia. His explorations brought him to Arctic shorelines strewn with mammalian remains, like seashells lapping against the seashore. Exploring that wilderness was a childhood dream, he said, adding: “but I can see now that back then, it was not just the adventure, I was trying to understand the environment.”
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