Author: David Reich
Publisher: Cortina Raffaello
Year edition: 2019
Format: Paperback
Pages of the printed version: 403 p.
EAN: 9788899668679
€ 27,55
Technological innovations today make it possible to analyze ancient DNA, making us understand, thanks above all to the contributions of David Reich, that genomics is an important tool for understanding past populations. Reich explains with unparalleled clarity and elegance how the human genome contains within itself the history of our species. It also explains how the genome revolution and ancient DNA are transforming the understanding of genealogy in modern humans and how DNA studies unearth the early history of inequality, of diversity among different populations, between sexes and among various individuals within a population. His essay refutes the dogma that there are no significant biological differences between human populations, and at the same time uses the definitive evidence provided by genomics to demonstrate that the existing differences most likely do not conform to common stereotypes.
