{"id":100824,"date":"2017-11-27T20:23:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T04:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/?p=190240"},"modified":"2017-11-27T20:23:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T04:23:56","slug":"understanding-prehistory-through-genetic-inference-and-ancient-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/27\/understanding-prehistory-through-genetic-inference-and-ancient-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding prehistory through genetic inference and ancient DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000RGSUMM\/geneexpressio-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-190241\" src=\"http:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/firstfarmers.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a>Before David Reich&#8217;s book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B073NP8WT3\/geneexpressio-20\">Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past<\/a>, I highly recommend a new preprint from Pontus Skoglund and Iain Mathieson*, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/ddzg6q5e14dg6ad\/Ancient%20Genomics.pdf\">Ancient genomics: a new view into human prehistory and evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s basically at the sweet spot for a lot of readers: <b>doesn&#8217;t overemphasize methods or archaeological minutiae that&#8217;s hard to follow. <\/b>That being said I do think you would benefit if you read two things which would complement in those directions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000RGSUMM\/geneexpressio-20\">First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genetics.org\/content\/early\/2012\/09\/06\/genetics.112.145037\">Ancient Admixture in Human History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* I have to say, I consider Iain a friend, but am I the only one a bit perplexed by how a British person can have such a difficult to spell version of his name? I always have to look it up!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F11%2F27%2Funderstanding-prehistory-through-genetic-inference-and-ancient-dna%2F&amp;linkname=Understanding%20prehistory%20through%20genetic%20inference%20and%20ancient%20DNA\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F11%2F27%2Funderstanding-prehistory-through-genetic-inference-and-ancient-dna%2F&amp;linkname=Understanding%20prehistory%20through%20genetic%20inference%20and%20ancient%20DNA\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plus\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/google_plus?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F11%2F27%2Funderstanding-prehistory-through-genetic-inference-and-ancient-dna%2F&amp;linkname=Understanding%20prehistory%20through%20genetic%20inference%20and%20ancient%20DNA\" title=\"Google+\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F11%2F27%2Funderstanding-prehistory-through-genetic-inference-and-ancient-dna%2F&amp;title=Understanding%20prehistory%20through%20genetic%20inference%20and%20ancient%20DNA\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/2017\/11\/27\/understanding-prehistory-through-genetic-inference-and-ancient-dna\/\" data-a2a-title=\"Understanding prehistory through genetic inference and ancient DNA\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before David Reich&rsquo;s book, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, I highly recommend a new preprint from Pontus Skoglund and Iain Mathieson*, Ancient genomics: a new view into human prehistory and evolution. It&rsquo;s basically at the sweet spot for a lot of readers: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,2291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-dna","category-population-genomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100825,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100824\/revisions\/100825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}