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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
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Dave Schoettinger
Jun 03, 2021 rated it liked it
Like a gypsy reading tea leaves to discover your future, David Reich and his colleagues read genomes to discover your past, or at least your ancestry. What he can tell you about your ancestry from deciphering your genome might not validate your DAR application, but it will give you a better idea where, and with whom, your ancestors were hanging out forty or fifty thousand years ago. Although Professor Reich goes to great lengths to explain how he does this, I am not going to pretend that I under ...more
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