Harvard geneticist David Reich has spent years extracting DNA from ancient human remains. What the data shows keeps defying every assumption scientists had built.
Every population ever studied is profoundly mixed. Britain alone has been almost completely replaced four or five times over. The hunter-gatherers who built Stonehenge’s foundations? Gone within a century. The idea of a clean lineage connecting any living person to any ancient place is, as Reich puts it, simply untenable.
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