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

A book that catalogues the movement and migration of human populations and the current work being done in sequencing and analyzing ancient DNA. Someone recommended this to me and I really enjoyed it. I think it was accessible but also rigorous. It mostly was an overview of the research literature in......more

We geneticists may be the barbarians coming late to the study of the human past, but it is always a bad idea to ignore barbarians. We have access to a type of data that no one has had before, and we are wielding these data to address previously unapproachable questions about who ancient peoples were......more

This was the book that I wanted the last book I read on the topic to be. Concentrates on the science, lucidly written, although probably best not read when one is too fatigued or sleepy. Its explanations seem as simple as possible but no simpler, which I appreciate. This is a round-up of the most re......more

This book offers readers a description about the human past that has been made possible by recent technological advances in genome research. By comparing whole genomes' worth of DNA from ancient humans of various degrees of antiquity together with the data analysis power of modern computers, a pictu......more

The idea of an existence of a pure human race is scientifically dead. Geneticist, David Reich, discovers through the process of whole-genome sequencing that modern humans are a mixture of a variety of human species, where forty thousand years ago our planet was inhabited by multiple groups of archai......more