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...most humanist bent can't afford to ignore the precipitous pace of discovery among geneticists, neither can any search for an integrated picture of the past rely on molecular anthropology alone. "Genetics tells us about the travels of human genes - the boy-meets-girl of the story," says Marek Zvelebil, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield. "But gene exchange is different from language or cultural exchange. Who are we in the long term? There are at least three identities - genetic, linguistic and cultural - and we're all a mix of these...
...Take for instance the key question of how agriculture spread in Europe. The genetic evidence of recent years certainly challenges the notion that agriculturalists from the Middle East wiped out previous immigrants to Europe, but it doesn't answer the question of how farming did spread. Zvelebil's reading of archaeological sites suggests that in many parts of Eastern and Northern Europe, there were porous frontiers between foragers and farmers that could last thousands of years...
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