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Deeper Than Deep: David Reich's genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past (2017)
David Reich’s genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past.
A discovery, I was to learn from Reich in a conversation that preceded the prize, that had been superseded by even more astonishing developments: evidence of interaction with human and non-Neanderthal variants of hominids, including evanescent but once real “ghost populations.” “I was intensely involved with a colleague who runs a laboratory in Germany, a great scientist, Svante Pääbo, who told me that they had through accident sequenced DNA from a finger bone of a girl who lived fifty thousand years ago—it was from a cave in southern Siberia. I turn hesitantly to the dark side of the genetic revolution, the one highlighted by the Washington Post story about the “secret Harvard meeting” incited by concern over synthetic human genomes and its revolutionary potential.
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