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Who we are and how we got here : the ancient DNA revolution and the new science of the human past

Reich, David (Of Harvard Medical School),,
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First edition.

"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 controversies. Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze ancient DNA as never before, and it has become clear--in part from David Reich's own contributions to the field--that genomics is as important a means of understanding the human past as archeology, linguistics, and the written word. Now, in The New Science of the Human Past, Reich describes with unprecedented clarity just how the human genome provides not only all the information that a fertilized human egg needs to develop but also contains within it the history of our species. He delineates how the Genomic Revolution and ancient DNA are transforming our understanding of our own lineage as modern humans; how genomics deconstructs the idea that there are no biologically meaningful differences among human populations (though without adherence to pernicious racist hierarchies); and how DNA studies reveal the deep history of human inequality--among different populations, between the sexes, and among individuals within a population"--

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  • 24 of 24 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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New Rochelle Public Library 572.86 R (Text)
Nonfiction 		31019156162821
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Bedford Free Library 572.86 R (Text)
Nonfiction 		31002150727476
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Briarcliff Manor Public Library 572.86 REICH (Text)
Nonfiction 		31036150864012
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Chappaqua Library 572.86 REICH (Text)
Nonfiction 		31005600038063
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Croton Free Library 572.86 R (Text)
Nonfiction 		31006151682267
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Greenburgh Public Library 572.86 R (Text)
Nonfiction 		31009154312346
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Hendrick Hudson Free Library 572.86 R (Text)
Nonfiction 		31016151633160
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Irvington Public Library 572.86 R (Text)
Nonfiction 		31012154382897
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John C. Hart Memorial Library 572.86 R (Text)
Nonfiction 		31030154770051
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Larchmont Public Library 572.86 R (Text)
Nonfiction 		31014152659813
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