Friday, April 27, 2018 3:45 p.m.
Caspary Auditorium
David Reich Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Recommended Readings:
Science News
Jared Diamond. A Brand-New Version of Our Origin Story. (April 20, 2018). The New York Times
Robin McKie. Neanderthals were perhaps capable of many modern human behaviours. (April 7, 2018). The Guardian
Turi King. Sex, power and ancient DNA. (March 13, 2018). Nature
Empirical Articles
Loreille, Odile ; Ratnayake, Shashikala ; Bazinet, Adam L.; et al. (2018). Biological Sexing of a 4000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Head to Assess the Potential of Nuclear DNA Recovery from the Most Damaged and Limited Forensic Specimens. GENES. 9 (3): 135
Olalde, Inigo; Brace, Selina; Allentoft, Morten E.; et al. (2018). The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe. NATURE. 555 (7695): 190-196
Mathieson, Iain; Alpaslan-Roodenberg, Songul; Posth, Cosimo; et al. (2018). The genomic history of southeastern Europe. NATURE. 555 (7695): 197-203
Hajdinjak, Mateja; Fu, Qiaomei; Huebner, Alexander; et al. (2018). Reconstructing the genetic history of late Neanderthals. NATURE. 555 (7698): 652-656
Lipson, Mark; Skoglund, Pontus; Spriggs, Matthew; et al. (2018). Population Turnover in Remote Oceania Shortly after Initial Settlement. CURRENT BIOLOGY. 28 (7): 1157-+
Palkopoulou, Eleftheria; Lipson, Mark; Mallick, Swapan; et al. (2018). A comprehensive genomic history of extinct and living elephants. PNAS. 115 (11): E2566-E2574
Tassi, Francesca; Vai, Stefania; Ghirotto, Silvia; et al. (2017). Genome diversity in the Neolithic Globular Amphorae culture and the spread of Indo-European languages. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 284 (1867
Haak, Wolfgang; Lazaridis, Iosif; Patterson, Nick; et al. (2015). Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe. NATURE. 522 (7555): 207-+
Altshuler, David M.; Durbin, Richard M.; Abecasis, Goncalo R.; et al. (2012). An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes. NATURE. 491 (7422): 56-65
Review Paper
Pickrell, Joseph K.; Reich, David. (2014). Toward a new history and geography of human genes informed by ancient DNA. TRENDS IN GENETICS. 30 (9): 377-389
Book
David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Pantheon Books, New York, and Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018)