David Reich
American geneticist and professor
David Reich is an American geneticist who studies the migrations and mixing of ancient human populations. He is a Harvard Medical School professor and wrote Who We Are and How We Got Here.
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American Born 1974 in Washington, D.C., United States
About David Reich
David Reich was born in 1974 and holds a professorship in genetics at Harvard Medical School, which he joined in 2003. He is also affiliated with the Broad Institute and works as an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He studied physics at Harvard University and earned a doctorate in zoology at the University of Oxford. His research draws on ancient DNA and statistical analysis of present-day populations to trace human migration history. Much of his work looks at Europe's genetic past, and at interbreeding among modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans. He is considered a founding figure in population genomics and paleogenetics. In 2015 he was named among Nature's 10. He also received the Dan David Prize in 2017, the Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2019 and the Massry Prize in 2021. Who We Are and How We Got Here is the book of his in our catalog.