Quotes
“Reich documents an extraordinary moment in the history of science…A potential political bombshell.” Wall Street Journal
“The work in [Reich’s] lab has reshaped our understanding of human prehistory…He and his colleagues have shed light on the peopling of the planet and the spread of agriculture, among other momentous events.” New York Times
“A thrilling account of mapping humans through time and place…We do need a non-loaded way to talk about genetic diversity and similarities in populations. This book goes some way to starting that conversation.” Nature
“Thrilling in its clarity and its scope.” Guardian (London)
“[Who We Are and How We Got Here] is mostly not a controversial book, but a wondrous one. It sheds light on the nascent field of ancient DNA, paleogenetics, which is exposing the human past by tracing population histories. Give a paleogeneticist a single genome, and they will unfurl the history of whole peoples.” India Today
“Provides a marvelous synthesis of the field.” Financial Times (London)
“Charts the myriad ways the study of ancient DNA is lobbing bombs into the halls of established wisdom.” Atlantic