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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
David Reich – How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago
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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)
Genomic model: history is what DNA (and languages, and artifacts) show us. David Reich’s Who We Are and How We Got Here is the canonical popular summary of this school of thought, along with Cavalli-Sforza’s older book on the History and Geography of Human Genes.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
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.