Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

by David Reich

With her samples organized in this way, Fu was able to break down the story of the first thirty-five thousand years of modern humans in West Eurasia into at least five key events.

If there is anything that scholars studying the history of humans in the Americas agree on, it is that the span of human occupation of the New World has been the blink of an eye relative to the extraordinary length of the human occupation of Africa and Eurasia.