What does ancient DNA tell us about ourselves?
Join us next week when David Reich, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, discusses his work and challenges previous assumptions about human evolution.
Reich is recipient of the Hermann J. Muller Award for Contributions to Our Understanding of Genes and Society and will give a lecture, “Toward a new history and geography of human genes informed by ancient DNA,” on Friday, March 6, at 6:30pm in Jordan Hall 124 following the award presentation.
In 2010 it became possible to generate genome-scale data from ancient human remains, making it possible to ask and answer questions about the deep past—how people are related to each other, the extent to which changes evident in the archaeological record were propelled by movements and mixtures of people, and how adaptation of human populations occurred over time.
Come to the lecture on March 6 to learn what Reich and his team have discovered.
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