The domestication of the donkey, the genetic diversity of the cheetah and the ancestry of the cucumber. A pretty heterogeneous list – but the projects being pursued by the palaeoanatomist Professor Joris Peters and the botanist Professor Susanne Renner do have one thing in common. None of them would be possible without the many unique and irreplaceable specimens in the Bavarian State Collections of Natural History. And there is little doubt that the keys to many other scientific mysteries are slumbering in the storerooms.

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