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Who We Are and How We Got Here

  • Writer: Michael Connolly
    Michael Connolly
  • Oct 11, 2025
  • 1 min read

Updated: Nov 27, 2025

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich, Pantheon, 2018. 


Ancient North Eurasians

These were a people whose descendants contributed substantially to both Native Americans and Europeans. But they are no longer present in North Eurasia itself.


India

India is a mixture of Ancestral North Indians (Aryans, Indo-Europeans) from the Caucasus and Ancestral South Indians (Dravidians) from Iran.


Cousins

The book also discusses our cousins, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans. The Denisovans contributed their DNA to the indigenous people of New Guinea and Australia.

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