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Who We Are and How We Got Here - Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past (Paperback)
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Who We Are and How We Got Here - Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past (Paperback)
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The past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map
whole genome DNA from ancient humans. With the ancient DNA
revolution, combined with rapid genome mapping of present human
populations, has come remarkable insights into our past. This
important new data has clarified and added to our knowledge from
archaeology and anthropology, helped resolve long-existing
controversies, challenged long-held views, and thrown up some
remarkable surprises. The emerging picture is one of many waves of
ancient human migrations, so that all populations existing today
are mixes of ancient ones, as well as in many cases carrying a
genetic component from Neanderthals, and, in some populations,
Denisovans. David Reich, whose team has been at the forefront of
these discoveries, explains what the genetics is telling us about
ourselves and our complex and often surprising ancestry. Gone are
old ideas of any kind of racial 'purity', or even deep and ancient
divides between peoples. Instead, we are finding a rich variety of
mixtures. Reich describes the cutting-edge findings from the past
few years, and also considers the sensitivities involved in tracing
ancestry, with science sometimes jostling with politics and
tradition. He brings an important wider message: that we should
celebrate our rich diversity, and recognize that every one of us is
the result of a long history of migration and intermixing of
ancient peoples, which we carry as ghosts in our DNA. What will we
discover next?
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