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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff

5.0

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A readable survey of past and current scientific thinking on the initial peopling of the americas by ancient indigenous groups. Raff is a geneticist with extensive experience sequencing ancient genomes and takes the reader deep in her lab. You leave the book with an understanding of how ancient dna can tell us so much about our shared human history, while balancing the desire to tell that story with the needs of contemporary indigenous peoples for whom ancient remains are sacred. Mind expanding and great!