"A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: David Reich is a Professor for Genetics in the Harvard University with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2024 Forum. Professors and researchers ...

In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption engulfed a town’s residents. They weren’t all who scientists thought, newly extracted genetic material suggests. By Franz Lidz The Italian writer Italo Calvino observed ...

In 79 CE, the active volcanic system in southern Italy known as Somma-Vesuvius erupted, burying the small Roman town of Pompeii and everyone in it. The “Pompeii eruption” covered everything in a layer ...

Cover; Who We Are and How We Got Here; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Deep History of Our Species; 1. How the Genome ...