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2013雅思考试阅读模拟题及答案五 　　2013雅思考试阅读模拟题及答案五 　　Don’t wash those fossils! 　　Standard museum practice can wash away DNA. 　　1. Washing， brushing and varnishing fossils — all standard conservation treatments used by many fossil hunters and museum curators alike — vastly reduces the chances of recovering ancient DNA. 　　2. Instead， excavators should be handling at least some of their bounty with gloves， and freezing samples as they are found， dirt and all， concludes a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today. 　　3. Although many palaeontologists know anecdotally that this is the b