@article{850435,
      recid = {850435},
      author = {Reich, David},
      title = {Who we are and how we got here : ancient DNA and the new  science of the human past /},
      pages = {xxv, 335 pages :},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/850435},
}