David Reich
David Reich · Science & Medicine
Geneticist who pioneered the study of ancient DNA to reconstruct human population history.
1974, Washington, D.C., United States
United States
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David Reich is a geneticist at Harvard Medical School who pioneered the large-scale study of ancient DNA, building one of the first major ancient-genome laboratories in the United States and using it to reconstruct the migrations and mixing of human populations. His work reshaped understanding of human prehistory. He grew up in a Jewish family in Washington; his father is Holocaust scholar Walter Reich.
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Geneticist who pioneered the study of ancient DNA to reconstruct human population history.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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