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We warn that models in population genetics should be treated with caution. Although they provide an important framework for testing historical hypoth… - David E. Reich
" "We warn that models in population genetics should be treated with caution. Although they provide an important framework for testing historical hypotheses, they are oversimplifications. For example, the true ancestral populations of India were probably not homogeneous as we assume in our model, but instead were probably formed by clusters of related groups that mixed at different times. (Reich et al. 2009: 492)
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David Reich (born in 1973 or 1974) is an American geneticist and Professor in the department of genetics at the Harvard Medical School, whose research focuses on finding complex genetic patterns that cause susceptibility to common diseases among populations.
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People often think that Europeans are homogeneous group that arrived in a simple way there maybe 40 or 50 thousand years ago maybe based on the archaeology and just kind of sat there until they became the Europeans they are today, but that's probably not true: the Europeans today are a replacement population who came in much more recently and replaced the people who were there originally 40 thousand years ago.
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