As the inaugural holder of the joint endowed chair between the faculties of Health Sciences and Social Sciences, Poinar will continue his work in and expand the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre.
The mammoth travelled through northwestern Canada and Alaska over the course of her lifetime, which ended when she encountered some of the earliest people to have traveled across the Bering Land Bridge.
Researchers at the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre are working with Indigenous communities to create informational videos that will help communities decide whether to use DNA identification at residential school burial sites.
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