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David Reich Quotes

1973–1974 United States

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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Ideologies that seek a return to a mythical purity are flying in the face of hard science.

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

“Whites” are not derived from a population that existed from time immemorial, as some people believe. Instead, “whites” represent a mixture of four ancient populations that lived 10,000 years ago and were each as different from one another as Europeans and East Asians are today.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Reich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.