The author describes how he lacked a budget for advanced laboratory equipment. He had to jerry rig machinery to meticulously warm and cool the samples at the correct temperatures, for a precise amount of time, and use enzymes and cleaning solutions to extract mitochondrial DNA and DNA from bone hydroxyapatite.

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