Victorian anthropological collections
Victorian anthropological collections have been used to study extinct, or seriously admixed populations, to provide new data about early human origins.
References
Endicott P, Gilbert MT, Stringer C, Lalueza-Fox C, Willerslev E, Hansen AJ, Cooper A. The genetic origins of the Andaman Islanders. Am J Hum Genet. 2003 Jan;72(1):178-84. PMID: 12478481