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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
The era of ancient genomics, though, suddenly provides us with the opportunity to explore these questions of hierarchy and kinship in a very detailed way that has simply not been possible before: tomb by tomb, hill by hill, valley by valley.
Alice Roberts • Ancestors
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
the Thousand Ancient Genomes project
Alice Roberts • Ancestors
Archaeologists can excavate a sunken ship in Denmark and determine that it was built in Ireland. Analysis of ancient DNA can make reliable sex determinations of the dead, tease out their family relationships, and even reveal the colour of their eyes and hair; it also makes possible the wider tracking of migrations and larger demographic change.
Neil Price • The Children of Ash and Elm
R. D. Lee - The Mitochondriac Manifesto_ How Nature Nurtures the Body, and Technology Torments It-Enquicken LLC (2022)
An exploration of the role of biophysics, mitochondria, and circadian rhythms in human health, highlighting the importance of light, water, and magnetism in controlling our biology and addressing chronic disease.
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Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
these patterns are the result not of accidental fluctuations but rather of decades of choice and adaptation by successive waves of different individuals sharing certain traits.