According to the BBC, we can use mouse genetics to track human migration. The Viking invasions are mentioned here, but human migrations of all sorts may well be mirrored in the house-mouse populations. Can you imagine a more useful or interesting use of genetic science? I mean, sure, we might be able to cure cancer or something dull like that, but perhaps we can also know exactly where the Saxons settled and when. Now that’s what I call science.

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