"It turns out that, in the prehistory of our species, almost all of us were invaders and usurpers and miscegenators."
My favorite optimist pens an essay about new insights in human history that are coming from the study of "ancient DNA". He concludes:
"The lessons of this DNA revolution are not just scientific, however; they are social and political as well. The discoveries made possible by our new access to ancient DNA show that very few people today live anywhere near where their distant ancestors lived. Virtually no one on the planet is a true native—an instructive fact to consider at a time when ethnic and national differences still abound and the world continues to throw human beings together in new and unexpected ways."
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