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Embracing failure leads to experience and, ultimately, extraordinary achievements. This is at the heart of Niobe Thompson\u2019s documentary Hunt for the Oldest DNA<\/i>, which premiered at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival this year.<\/p>\n

The film follows Eske Willerslev, a Danish evolutionary geneticist now at the University of Cambridge, whose team managed to reconstruct from ancient DNA the ecosystem that existed 2 million years ago in the Kap K\u00f8benhavn Formation, northern Greenland. The area today is Arctic desert with\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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