"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 ...

BOSTON — Only David Reich’s eyes were visible as he inspected the batch of bones. Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School, wore a hooded white clean room suit, cream-colored clogs, and a blue ...

DNA detectives have discovered that half of the humans alive today have descended from a group that lived in what is now Ukraine 5,000 years ago. The research project, originally published in the Wall ...

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 ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the Roman city of Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago, a thick layer of volcanic ash encased the bodies, preserving their forms. The bodies, later immortalized by plaster ...

Thousands of years before Odysseus crossed the ‘wine-dark sea’ in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first ...

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 ...