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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

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Chemical paleogenetics: Molecular "restoration studies' of extinct forms of life.

PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994)
PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994) ZUCKERKANDL, Émile (1922 – 2013)

Coinage of the term "paleogenetics" in what may be the first publication on the possibility of reconstructing extinct life forms through molecular biology. "Attention is attracted to the possibility of reconstructing …