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David Reich
David Reich is a geneticist and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School whose lab studies ancient DNA, human evolutionary biology, and disease. He is widely known for pioneering large-scale analysis of ancient human genomes and for showing how population mixture shaped human history. Reich is also the author of Who We Are and How We Got Here, a book that explains how ancient DNA transformed our understanding of the human past for scientists and general readers around the world.
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Human origins once looked like a simple migration story. According to geneticist David Reich, new evidence keeps turning it into a record of contact, disappearance, and surprise.
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The oldest bones in Britain share almost no DNA with anyone alive today. Here’s what that tells us about human history, genetics, and ethnic “homelands."
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What if one of our oldest ideas about ancestry is simply wrong? Harvard geneticist David Reich argues that ancient DNA has exposed the myth of purity and uncovered a far messier history of who we are and where we came from.