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David Reich Quote: “Upper Paleolithic technology itself was not essential to the successful spread of modern humans into Eurasia after around fifty thousand years ago. It was something more profound than Upper Paleolithic stone tool technology – an inventiveness and adaptability of which the technology was just a manifestation – that allowed these expanding modern humans to prevail everywhere, including in the east.”

51. “Upper Paleolithic technology itself was not essential to the successful spread of modern humans into Eurasia after around fifty thousand years ago. It was something more profound than Upper Paleolithic stone tool technology – an inventiveness and adaptability of which the technology was just a manifestation – that allowed these expanding modern humans to prevail everywhere, including in the east.”

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David Reich Quote: “This is my model too: to build a factory, and then to commandeer it to answer deep questions about the past.”

52. “This is my model too: to build a factory, and then to commandeer it to answer deep questions about the past.”

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David Reich Quote: “Yet farming was not invented in India. Indian farming today is born of the collision of the two great agricultural systems of Eurasia.”

53. “Yet farming was not invented in India. Indian farming today is born of the collision of the two great agricultural systems of Eurasia.”

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David Reich Quote: “0.8-standard-deviation increase in the average sprinting ability in West Africans would be expected to lead to a hundredfold enrichment in the proportion of people above the 99.9999999th percentile point in Europeans. But an alternative explanation that would predict the same magnitude of effect is that there is simply more variation in sprinting ability in people of West African ancestry – with more people of both very high and very low abilities.”

54. “0.8-standard-deviation increase in the average sprinting ability in West Africans would be expected to lead to a hundredfold enrichment in the proportion of people above the 99.9999999th percentile point in Europeans. But an alternative explanation that would predict the same magnitude of effect is that there is simply more variation in sprinting ability in people of West African ancestry – with more people of both very high and very low abilities.”

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David Reich Quote: “After a grenade explosion in a room, could the exact position of each object prior to the explosion be reconstructed by piecing together the scattered remains and studying the shrapnel in the wall?”

55. “After a grenade explosion in a room, could the exact position of each object prior to the explosion be reconstructed by piecing together the scattered remains and studying the shrapnel in the wall?”

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David Reich Quote: “For the great majority of traits, there is, as Lewontin said, much more variation within populations than across populations. This means that individuals with extreme high or low values of the great majority of traits can occur in any population. But it does not preclude the existence of subtler, average differences in traits across populations.”

56. “For the great majority of traits, there is, as Lewontin said, much more variation within populations than across populations. This means that individuals with extreme high or low values of the great majority of traits can occur in any population. But it does not preclude the existence of subtler, average differences in traits across populations.”

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David Reich Quote: “With this approach, we found that at least some Neanderthal-related genetic material came into the ancestors of present-day non-Africans eighty-six thousand to thirty-seven thousand years ago.20.”

57. “With this approach, we found that at least some Neanderthal-related genetic material came into the ancestors of present-day non-Africans eighty-six thousand to thirty-seven thousand years ago.20.”

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David Reich Quote: “These numbers imply that the contribution of European American men to the genetic makeup of the present-day African American population is about four times that of European American women.”

58. “These numbers imply that the contribution of European American men to the genetic makeup of the present-day African American population is about four times that of European American women.”

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David Reich Quote: “The avalanche of new data that has become available in the wake of the genome revolution has shown just how wrong the tree metaphor is for summarizing the relationship among modern human populations.”

59. “The avalanche of new data that has become available in the wake of the genome revolution has shown just how wrong the tree metaphor is for summarizing the relationship among modern human populations.”

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David Reich Quote: “India may have been the first place where the Near Eastern and the Chinese crop systems collided.”

60. “India may have been the first place where the Near Eastern and the Chinese crop systems collided.”

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David Reich Quote: “Could languages long extinct be recalled by unsealing a cave still reverberating with the echoes of words spoken there thousands of years ago?”

61. “Could languages long extinct be recalled by unsealing a cave still reverberating with the echoes of words spoken there thousands of years ago?”

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David Reich Quote: “Evidence of the antiquity of inequality should motivate us to deal in a more sophisticated way with it today, and to behave a little better in our own time.”

62. “Evidence of the antiquity of inequality should motivate us to deal in a more sophisticated way with it today, and to behave a little better in our own time.”

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David Reich Quote: “His proximity in time to the mixing event makes it possible to obtain a more accurate date of fifty-four thousand to forty-nine thousand years ago.”

63. “His proximity in time to the mixing event makes it possible to obtain a more accurate date of fifty-four thousand to forty-nine thousand years ago.”

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David Reich Quote: “We are now producing data so fast that the time lag between data production and publication is longer than the time it takes to double the data in the field.”

64. “We are now producing data so fast that the time lag between data production and publication is longer than the time it takes to double the data in the field.”

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David Reich Quote: “Since 2009, though, whole-genome data have begun to challenge long-held views in archaeology, history, anthropology, and even linguistics – and to resolve controversies in those fields.”

65. “Since 2009, though, whole-genome data have begun to challenge long-held views in archaeology, history, anthropology, and even linguistics – and to resolve controversies in those fields.”

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David Reich Quote: “If as scientists we willfully abstain from laying out a rational framework for discussing human differences, we will leave a vacuum that will be filled by pseudoscience, an outcome that is far worse than anything we could achieve by talking openly.”

66. “If as scientists we willfully abstain from laying out a rational framework for discussing human differences, we will leave a vacuum that will be filled by pseudoscience, an outcome that is far worse than anything we could achieve by talking openly.”

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David Reich Quote: “But studies of pollen records in Denmark and elsewhere show that around this time, large parts of northern Europe were transformed from partial forest to grasslands, suggesting that the Corded Ware newcomers may have cut down forests, reengineered parts of the landscape to be more like the steppe, and carved out a niche for themselves that previous peoples of the region had never fully claimed.”

67. “But studies of pollen records in Denmark and elsewhere show that around this time, large parts of northern Europe were transformed from partial forest to grasslands, suggesting that the Corded Ware newcomers may have cut down forests, reengineered parts of the landscape to be more like the steppe, and carved out a niche for themselves that previous peoples of the region had never fully claimed.”

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David Reich Quote: “Ancient DNA has established major migration and mixture between highly divergent populations as a key force shaping human prehistory, and ideologies that seek a return to a mythical purity are flying in the face of hard science.”

68. “Ancient DNA has established major migration and mixture between highly divergent populations as a key force shaping human prehistory, and ideologies that seek a return to a mythical purity are flying in the face of hard science.”

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David Reich Quote: “What will happen once we have genome-wide data from a thousand European farmers living shortly after the transition to agriculture? Comparing the results of a scan for recent natural selection in these individuals to the same scan performed in present-day Europeans should make it possible to understand whether the pace and nature of human adaptation has changed between preagricultural times and the time since the transition to agriculture.”

69. “What will happen once we have genome-wide data from a thousand European farmers living shortly after the transition to agriculture? Comparing the results of a scan for recent natural selection in these individuals to the same scan performed in present-day Europeans should make it possible to understand whether the pace and nature of human adaptation has changed between preagricultural times and the time since the transition to agriculture.”

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David Reich Quote: “I have spent some space discussing errors in Wade’s book because I feel it is important to explain that just because many academics have been engaged in trying to maintain an implausible orthodoxy, it does not mean that every unorthodox “heretic” is right.”

70. “I have spent some space discussing errors in Wade’s book because I feel it is important to explain that just because many academics have been engaged in trying to maintain an implausible orthodoxy, it does not mean that every unorthodox “heretic” is right.”

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David Reich Quote: “Were the Neanderthals the only archaic humans who interbred with our ancestors? Or were there other major hybridizations in our past?”

71. “Were the Neanderthals the only archaic humans who interbred with our ancestors? Or were there other major hybridizations in our past?”

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David Reich Quote: “A concern is that when members of groups are directly engaged in scientific investigation of their own history, people’s wish that certain things should be true often colors presentation of the findings.”

72. “A concern is that when members of groups are directly engaged in scientific investigation of their own history, people’s wish that certain things should be true often colors presentation of the findings.”

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David Reich Quote: “But we have at best a superficial knowledge of the historical and archaeological and linguistic background of any topic we work on, and as knowledge grows, a deeper understanding of each region and the specific questions associated with it will be needed to make progress. Over the next two decades, I expect that ancient DNA specialists will be hired into every serious department of anthropology and archaeology, even history.”

73. “But we have at best a superficial knowledge of the historical and archaeological and linguistic background of any topic we work on, and as knowledge grows, a deeper understanding of each region and the specific questions associated with it will be needed to make progress. Over the next two decades, I expect that ancient DNA specialists will be hired into every serious department of anthropology and archaeology, even history.”

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David Reich Quote: “Writing now, I shudder to think of Watson, or of Wade, or their forebears, behind my shoulder. The history of science has revealed, again and again, the danger of trusting one’s instincts or of being led astray by one’s biases – of being too convinced that one knows the truth.”

74. “Writing now, I shudder to think of Watson, or of Wade, or their forebears, behind my shoulder. The history of science has revealed, again and again, the danger of trusting one’s instincts or of being led astray by one’s biases – of being too convinced that one knows the truth.”

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David Reich Quote: “Our history may not be as simple as the story of a dominant group that was immediately successful wherever it went.”

75. “Our history may not be as simple as the story of a dominant group that was immediately successful wherever it went.”

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