He didn't waste any time. After handing the jawbone over to the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, he drove south of Adelaide to Aldinga, to ask 84-year-old Helen Blackburne for a sample of her DNA.

他没有浪费一点时间，把颌骨交给澳大利亚古dna检测中心之后，就驱车赶往阿得雷德南部的奥尔丁格，去向84岁的海伦·布莱克伯恩请求一份她的DNA标本。

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Willerslev found the DNA he needed in a 100-year-old hair sample from an Aborigine who lived in a relatively remote area of southwest Australia.

威勒斯·雷夫从一位100年前居住在澳大利亚西南部偏远地区的土著人的头发样本中找到了他需要的DNA。

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While this is bad news for anyone claiming to have found DNA in, say an amber-encased mosquito, it does mean that the record for the oldest DNA sample (currently 500, 000 years old) can be broken.

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