Quoted: ?That?s pretty cool,? said John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who works with Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA. ?Anthropologists have historically looked at fossils and tried to draw lines connecting them. But that?s a poor approach because fossils are really hard to find.? DNA, on the other hand, tells its story within every human cell, and new technology is making those tales ever easier to read.