Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze ancient DNA as never before, and it has become clear--in part from David Reich's own contributions to the field--that ...

Humanity could be brought back from extinction in millions of years after a person’s genome was etched on a crystal and stored in an Austrian cave. The 25mm-long 5D memory crystal includes the ...

In 79 CE, the active volcanic system in southern Italy known as Somma-Vesuvius erupted, burying the small Roman town of Pompeii and everyone in it. The “Pompeii eruption” covered everything in ...

NEWS 12 March 2025 Ancient DNA shows Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

David Reich describes how the revolution in the ability to sequence ancient DNA has changed our understanding of the deep human past. This book tells the emerging story of our often surprising ...