Who We Are and How We Got Here
"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, linguistic
ISBN: 9781101870327
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Naval Ravikant
Business & Entrepreneurship"Naval Ravikant tweeted about this book."
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Marc Andreessen
Finance & Investing"Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter."
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Michael Mauboussin
Finance & Investing"[One of] my favorite science books in 2018."
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Science & Research"This is a monument, not just a book. And the beginning of a new cultural program. On a scale of 0 to 100, paternity tests count as 99.99 and written/oral history should count for .01. Apply that to populations. That’s plain statistics/probability. We are seeing science in action: information theory displaces BS, the handwaving just so stories we got from historians."
Balaji Srinivasan
Business & Entrepreneurship"The brief argument is: our true history is written in our genes."
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Nassim Taleb
Finance & Investing"Finally, science enters historical fields."