Peterski
02-23-2019, 11:04 AM
"How can ancient DNA affect the political and social lives of nations?
Ancient DNA has proven to be very disruptive. When you look at data from the skeletons of people who lived in any one place, it’s extremely rare that those people looked like people who live in the same place now. This seems to be true almost everywhere now where we get ancient DNAs. We can use this microscope to look at the past and apply it to different ancient cultures and ask the question, how are the people living there in ancient times related to the people living there today? The technology we now have is probing and taking measurements about phenomena that wasn’t possible to quantify before. (...)"
Source: https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/what-ancient-dna-tells-us-about-caste-1550220915568.html
Ancient DNA has proven to be very disruptive. When you look at data from the skeletons of people who lived in any one place, it’s extremely rare that those people looked like people who live in the same place now. This seems to be true almost everywhere now where we get ancient DNAs. We can use this microscope to look at the past and apply it to different ancient cultures and ask the question, how are the people living there in ancient times related to the people living there today? The technology we now have is probing and taking measurements about phenomena that wasn’t possible to quantify before. (...)"
Source: https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/what-ancient-dna-tells-us-about-caste-1550220915568.html