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00:00 Introduction: How DNA solved history’s biggest mysteries
01:04 Discovering the remains of Richard III
08:35 Using DNA to identify Richard III
11:20 Paternal DNA and a potential royal controversy
14:06 The execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family
16:28 DNA fingerprinting and the Pitchfork case
22:14 The Golden State Killer
25:39 Using DNA databases ethically
29:51 The Amanda Knox case and misleading DNA evidence
34:11 The phantom of Heilbronn
36:35 Senator Elizabeth Warren Native American ancestry
39:29 Viking ancestry
41:19 Constructing a global family tree
42:49 Studying the DNA of Adolf Hitler
49:44 What is heritability?
54:06 The role of epigentics
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