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020 _a9781101870327
028 _aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)LTD.
_b;7/22,Anasri Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002
_c;1081653
_d;27/08/2018
082 _a572.86 REI
100 _aDavid Reich
245 _aWho we are and how we got here
_b: ancient DNA and the new science of the human past
_c/David Reich
260 _aNew York
_b: Pantheon Books
_c, 2018
300 _axxv, 335 pages
_b: illustrations, maps
_c ; 25 cm
365 _b1461
505 _a Introduction -- Part I. The deep history of our species. How the genome explains who we are ; Encounters with Neanderthals ; Ancient DNA opens the floodgates -- Part II. How we got to where we are today. Humanity's ghosts ; The making of modern Europe ; The collision that formed India ; In search of Native American ancestors ; The genomic origins of East Asians ; Rejoining Africa to the human story -- Part III. The disruptive genome. The genomics of inequality ; The genomics of race and identity ; The future of ancient DNA.
520 _aA 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"
650 _a Biochemistry
655 _aDNA--Analysis
_bGenomics
700 _aDavid Reich
942 _cBOOK
999 _c50109
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