The ancient DNA revolution is rapidly disrupting our assumptions about the past. Yet there is at present no book by a working geneticist that lays out the impact of the new science and explains how it can be used to establish compelling new facts. The findings needed to grasp the scope of the ancient DNA revolution are scattered among hard-to-read, jargon-filled scientific papers, sometimes supplemented by hundreds of pages of dense notes on methodology. In Who We Are and How We Got Here, I aim to offer readers a clear view through this extraordinary window into the past—to provide a book
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