Comments on: Book review – Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past/2018/05/01/book-review-who-we-are-and-how-we-got-here-ancient-dna-and-the-new-science-of-the-human-past/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:52:01 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/01/book-review-who-we-are-and-how-we-got-here-ancient-dna-and-the-new-science-of-the-human-past/comment-page-1/#comment-94805Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:52:01 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1673#comment-94805[…] The Naked Neanderthal). Holliday provides a potted history of their discovery, the genetic evidence of interbreeding with our ancestors, and the archaeological evidence that the two overlapped and […]

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]]>By: Book review – Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/01/book-review-who-we-are-and-how-we-got-here-ancient-dna-and-the-new-science-of-the-human-past/comment-page-1/#comment-94564Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:32:58 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1673#comment-94564[…] good coverage of the subject of human ancestry as revealed by aDNA from the likes of Pääbo and Reich, that he will not retread that territory. Instead, he discusses studies that have revealed more […]

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]]>By: Book review – Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/01/book-review-who-we-are-and-how-we-got-here-ancient-dna-and-the-new-science-of-the-human-past/comment-page-1/#comment-94558Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:35:23 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1673#comment-94558[…] the complete Neanderthal genome in just two years. This is also where population geneticist David Reich enters the picture to develop the required statistical and bioinformatical tools to analyse all […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/01/book-review-who-we-are-and-how-we-got-here-ancient-dna-and-the-new-science-of-the-human-past/comment-page-1/#comment-50184Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:30:02 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1673#comment-50184[…] is easily preserved, but more careful excavation methodology and new technologies such as LiDAR and ancient DNA reveal a past that is far more varied than we have allowed for. There is more to history than the […]

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]]>By: Book review – Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/01/book-review-who-we-are-and-how-we-got-here-ancient-dna-and-the-new-science-of-the-human-past/comment-page-1/#comment-39666Mon, 17 Jan 2022 11:55:50 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1673#comment-39666[…] out hunter-gatherers, rather than the latter adopting farming practices, a finding supported by ancient DNA studies. I agree with many things he says, but also feel he is a tad too confident in his assertions, […]

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]]>By: Book review – Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/01/book-review-who-we-are-and-how-we-got-here-ancient-dna-and-the-new-science-of-the-human-past/comment-page-1/#comment-37078Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:02:47 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1673#comment-37078[…] is but a sampling of many interesting findings discussed. Agriculture seems to have spread by farmers pushing out hunter-gatherers, rather than the latter adopting farming practices. Morbiliviruses jumped from rodents and bats via […]

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]]>By: Book review – A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/01/book-review-who-we-are-and-how-we-got-here-ancient-dna-and-the-new-science-of-the-human-past/comment-page-1/#comment-33979Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:44:48 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1673#comment-33979[…] the explosive radiation of birds? Gee also stops rather abruptly with our departure from Africa and our interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans. Recent milestones, such as language, animal and plant domestication, and agriculture are skipped […]

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]]>By: Book review – Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined – and Redefined – Nature | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/01/book-review-who-we-are-and-how-we-got-here-ancient-dna-and-the-new-science-of-the-human-past/comment-page-1/#comment-31788Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:18:37 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1673#comment-31788[…] human evolution is a complex history of mixing and migration, reiterating the picture presented in Who We Are and How We Got Here. She examines megafaunal mass extinction, Paul Martin’s Pleistocene overkill hypothesis, and […]

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]]>By: Book review – Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/01/book-review-who-we-are-and-how-we-got-here-ancient-dna-and-the-new-science-of-the-human-past/comment-page-1/#comment-24580Mon, 16 Aug 2021 10:18:24 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1673#comment-24580[…] with pizzlies (polar-grizzly bear hybrids) being one example. But, just as humans contain some Neanderthal DNA, studies have shown grizzly bears to contain some polar bear DNA; one example of the book […]

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]]>By: Book review – Vampirology: The Science of Horror’s Most Famous Fiend | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/01/book-review-who-we-are-and-how-we-got-here-ancient-dna-and-the-new-science-of-the-human-past/comment-page-1/#comment-20604Wed, 23 Jun 2021 16:32:35 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1673#comment-20604[…] us as another species of Homo leads into a discussion on human evolution and the revelations of ancient DNA, how large a viable population would need to be, and what genetic changes would have to evolve to, […]

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