Who We Are and How We Got Here
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
| Full title | Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past |
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| Author | David Reich |
| Published | 2018 |
| Pages | 352 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Reich, whose lab produced much of the data, on what ancient DNA has done to prehistory — repeated mass migrations, populations replaced wholesale, and the collapse of the tidy models that preceded the evidence: a new measurement technique rewriting a settled field inside a decade. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the thread answering “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full list: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Evolution · Science — the method.
- The Horse, the Wheel, and Language — the steppe migration argument that ancient DNA went on to test.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.