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179 | David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Past Is Not a Well Described by the Present
The past is not really a well described by the present. Its s very important to keep that in mind. And one of the things we see again and again with anciendiana data is when one goes an callextiane from archaeological context that have never been interrogated before with its technology, and makes guess beforehand about what how these people would be related to people living afterward. Almost always that guess is wrong, and often profoundly wrong. Is essentially everywhere woralmost we see patterns like this,. where, again and again, you see groups in the south pacific that are not directly ancestral, or primarily ancestral, to people living to day.
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