Posted on 03/26/2018 7:16:59 AM PDT by C19fan
In the early 19th century, Jean-François Champollion used the Rosetta Stone to begin the process of deciphering the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt. We already knew Egypt through the Bible and the histories of the Greeks, but even Herodotus wrote 2,000 years after the beginning of the Old Kingdom. With the translation of hieroglyphics, the legend of Egypt came to life. What had been cloudy became clear.
In Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard’s Medical School and the Broad Institute, introduces us to the 21st-century Rosetta Stone: ancient DNA, which will do more for our understanding of prehistory than radiocarbon dating did. Where the latter allowed archaeologists to create a timeline based on the material objects they excavated, DNA sequencing allows scholars to explore the genetics of the people who created those material cultures. We may never see the face of Agamemnon, but we already have the DNA of the warlords of Mycenaean Greece, and in the future we could reconstruct their features from genes alone.
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I do.
It is the basis for my (in progress) science fiction tetralogy.
See That Hideous Strength, by Clive Staples Lewis.
I enjoyed it too, all meat and no fat. I found myself replaying one minute segments where I wanted to be sure I was properly understanding his points. Very informative.
Hit It Ping!
>>>To summarize a complicated tale, humans like to move and men were not picky.<<<
>>As it is now, so it has forever been.<<
Ecclesiastes 1:9 (KJV)
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun..”
Or, perhaps, equally apropos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FFtht9k87k
>>And modern man has beer goggles.<<
Way back, when it was midnight at the oasis, it didn’t even matter if she had a bone in her nose.
Ho-ho!
My mom said it was like little boys wanting to put their fingers in all the knotholes in the fence. She called it their "orifice complex."
My daddy was a rolling stone, he was a Meanderthal.
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