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  1. Prof Ian Barnes is a Merit Researcher in the Earth Sciences Department, specialising in Ancient DNA and Evolutionary Biology. He works on projects related to Late Pleistocene vertebrates and anthropology, and teaches and supervises students in these fields.

  2. 85-year-old runner Ian Barnes has set a new British mile record for over 85s. He recorded a time of eight minutes, 10.40 seconds.

    • The History of Cheddar Man
    • How The Face Was Created
    • Cannibals in Gough’s Cave

    A human male fossil skeleton, unearthed in 1903 in Gough’s Cave at Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, Cheddar Man has been the topic of constant mystery and intrigue. For over 100 years, scientists have tried to reveal Cheddar Man’s story, posing theories as to what he looked like, where he came from and what he can tell us about our earliest ancestors. Only...

    Working in the Natural History Museum’s ancient DNA lab, Prof Barnes and Dr Brace drilled a tiny hole, 2mm in diameter, into the ancient skull, allowing them to obtain a few milligrams of his bone powder for analysis. As the DNA was unusually well-preserved, possibly due to the cool, stable conditions in the limestone cave, they were able to extrac...

    Dr Silvia Bello, along with the Museum’s Prof Chris Stringer, has spent the last ten years analysing the bones of the earlier inhabitants of the cave which date back nearly 5000 years before Cheddar Man. They have established that these early humans were cannibals. These temporary visitors came during an ice age thaw, but were driven out - like all...

  3. Ian Barnes is a Research Leader at the Natural History Museum who studies ancient biomolecules and human evolution. He explains how ancient DNA reveals the transformation of the British population from prehistory to today.

  4. In 2018, biomolecular archaeologist Ian Barnes' team at the Natural History Museum in London ascertained that Cheddar Man—the oldest near-complete human skeleton discovered in the British Isles—had dark skin and light eyes.

  5. Ian Barnes (born in Chadwell Heath in 1972) is an evolutionary geneticist notable for his work on ancient DNA, human and animal migration, and phylogenetics. Barnes is a Research Leader in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. [1]

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  7. Feb 21, 2018 · The Natural History Museum’s Professor Ian Barnes, a co-senior author of the study, explains, “We found that the skeletal remains of individuals from Britain who lived shortly after the first beaker pottery appears have a very different DNA profile to those who came before.