"As an archaeologist, I share in the excitement around how technology and techniques to study DNA are leaping ahead... But, I have also closely studied the history of collecting human remains for science. I am gravely concerned that the current "bone rush" to make new genetic discoveries has set off an ethical crisis," writes Chip Colwell, Lecturer in Anthropology.

Rights of the dead and the living clash when scientists extract DNA from human remains
The Conversation, April 6