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David Reich Quote: “All told, more than half the world’s population derives between 5 percent and 40 percent of their genomes from the Ancient North Eurasians.”
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.”
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.”
David Reich Quote: “Africa and the Near East had an effect akin to the erasing of a blackboard, creating a blank slate for the new people.”
David Reich Quote: “He acknowledged that the reliance on racial and ethnic categories is useful given our poor present knowledge, but predicted that the future will involve testing individuals directly for what mutations they have, and doing away altogether with racial classification as a basis for making individualized decisions about care.”
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.”
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.”
David Reich Quote: “Our history may not be as simple as the story of a dominant group that was immediately successful wherever it went.”
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.”
David Reich Quote: “Whether the original Indo-European speakers lived in the Near East or in eastern Europe, the Yamnaya, who were the main group responsible for spreading Indo-European languages across a vast span of the globe, were formed by mixture.”
David Reich Quote: “The intensification of evidence for modern human behavior after fifty thousand years ago is undeniable, and raises the question of whether biological change contributed to it.”
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.”
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.”
David Reich Quote: “And yet my perspective as a Jew made me empathize strongly with all the likely Romeos and Juliets over thousands of years of Indian history whose loves across ethnic lines have been quashed by caste.”
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? Today, ancient DNA is enabling this kind of detailed reconstruction of deep relationships among ancient human populations.”
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.”
David Reich Quote: “India may have been the first place where the Near Eastern and the Chinese crop systems collided.”
David Reich Quote: “But this long-held view about “race” has just in the last few years been proven wrong – and the critique of concepts of race that the new data provide is very different from the classic one that has been developed by anthropologists over the last hundred years.”
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.”
David Reich Quote: “One of the handful of places in the world where farming independently began was China.”
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.”
David Reich Quote: “But ancient DNA discoveries have rendered the serial founder model untenable. We now know that the present-day structure of populations does not reflect the one that existed many thousands of years ago.34.”
David Reich Quote: “The geneticist Daniel Bradley and his colleagues identified a Y-chromosome type that is present in two to three million people today and derives from an ancestor who lived around fifteen hundred years ago.16 It is especially common in people with the last name O’Donnell, who descend from one of the most powerful royal families of medieval Ireland, the “Descendants of Niall” – referring to Niall of the Nine Hostages, a legendary warlord from the earliest period of medieval Irish history.”
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.”
David Reich Quote: “On the one side there are beliefs about the nature of the differences that are grounded in bigotry and have little basis in reality. On the other side there is the idea that any biological differences among populations are so modest that as a matter of social policy they can be ignored and papered over. It is time to move on from this paralyzing false dichotomy and to figure out what the genome is actually telling us.”
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