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New research links Native Americans with the Ancient Chinese - Ep 182

On todays show we take a look at 3 recent archaeological news stories. First, a new national park in Canada is being developed in corporation with the First Nations tribes in the area. Then, research at an ancient Iraqi fortress may be the remains of an ancient city that was previously lost. And finally, new analysis of DNA found in 14,000 year old modern human DNA in China has been linked to Native Americans.

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Ancient DNA with David Reich - Episode 42

Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze ancient DNA as never before, and genomics is emerging as important a means of understanding the human past as archeology, linguistics, and the written word. In his new book Who We Are and How We Got Here (Pantheon), David Reich describes how the human genome provides not only all the information that a fertilized human egg needs to develop but also contains within it the history of our species. Join Reich as he discusses how the genomic revolution and ancient DNA are transforming our understanding of our lineage as modern humans, and how DNA studies reveal a deep history of inequality—among different populations, between the sexes, and among individuals within a population. He examines how research contradicts the orthodoxy that there are no meaningful biological differences among human populations, at the same time using evidence provided by genomics and ancient DNA to show that the differences that do exist do not conform to familiar and often pernicious stereotypes. Reich, a pioneer in analyzing ancient human DNA, is a professor in the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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