![]() It sheds light on the nascent field of ancient DNA, paleogenetics, which is exposing the human past by tracing population histories. is mostly not a controversial book, but a wondrous one. But perched at Harvard, as one of his generation's most eminent human population geneticists, Reich will move forward unscathed. ![]() ![]() This was not unlike tossing a grenade into the public square. ![]() Appearing as an op-ed in The New York Times, "How Genetics is Changing Our Understanding of 'Race'", it had Reich stating that he is "worried that well-meaning people who deny the possibility of substantial biological differences among human populations are digging themselves into an indefensible position, one that will not survive the onslaught of science". An excerpt from David Reich's new book, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, recently touched off a media and cultural firestorm in the United States. ![]()
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