“The mixture of highly differentiated populations is a recurrent process in our history.”

—  David Reich (geneticist) , book Who We Are and How We Got Here

David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2018, p.10

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