David Reich's 2018 account of the ancient DNA revolution — demonstrating that human population history is characterized by large-scale migrations and population replacements that create the diversity we see today — covering the peopling of the Americas, the spread of Indo-European languages, and African population structure.
Makes the ancient DNA revolution accessible to a general audience — Reich explains how paleogenomics discovered that the Aryans were real (Yamnaya steppe pastoralists), that Native Americans are descended from multiple distinct migrations, and that modern humans have multiple archaic DNA contributions — transforming human prehistory.
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