Our Changing World

Pacific Pig DNA

21:33 pm on 19 April 2007

Pacific Pig DNA

Tracing human migration routes using fossil pig genetics.

Veronika also talks to Lisa Matisoo Smith, an anthropologist at the University of Auckland, who's studied ancient DNA from fossil pigs to trace back the origin of Pacific pigs, to help trace their, and people's, migration path into Polynesia.