David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago
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Reich describes ancient DNA overturning models of population history, including his own. He also identifies deep lineages with scarcely any samples: a reconstructed tree cannot show every population that once existed.
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we really don't know what the past was like until we actually look at itwe really have no sampling except for the Denisovans and Neanderthals right now.