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Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I - The Deep History of Our Species 1: How the Genome Explains Who We Are 2: Interbreeding with Neanderthals 3: Ancient DNA Opens the FloodgatesPart II - How We Got to Where We Are Today 4: Humanity's Ghosts 5: The Making of Modern Europe 6: The Collision that Formed India 7: In Search of American Ancestors 8: The Genomic Origins of East Asians 9: Rejoining Africa to the Human StoryPart III -The Disruptive Genome 10: The Genomics of Inequality 11: The Genomics of Race and Identity 12: The Future of Ancient DNA

About the Author

David Reich is a Professor of Genetics at Harvard University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. In 2015 he was highlighted by Nature magazine as one of "10 people who matter" in all of science for his role in transforming the field of ancient DNA "from niche pursuit to industrial process." In 2017 he was awarded the Dan David Prize in the Archaeological and Natural Sciences for the computational discovery of intermixing between Neanderthals and modern humans.

Reviews

`Reich's beautifully written book...   demonstrates a hard truth that often makes many of us uncomfortable: not only are all human beings mixed, but our intuitive understanding of the evolution of the population structure of the world around us is not to be trusted.' - Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Professor of Literature at Harvard University