David Reich, Tony Joseph | A Tale of Two Subcontinents | Jaipur Literature Festival

A Tale of Two Subcontinents: David Reich & Tony Joseph David Reich is a Harvard professor and was named one of ten people who matter in all of science by Nature magazine in 2015. In 2017, he received the Dan David Prize. His 2018 book is Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past. Bestselling/ popular Books: Who We Are and How We Got Here Tony Joseph is the author of Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From. He has been a journalist for over three decades and has worked with The Economic Times as Features Editor, Business Standard as Associate Editor and Business World as Editor. A Tale of Two Subcontinents The new technology of ancient DNA has in the last year highlighted a remarkable parallel in the prehistory of Europe and India. In both cases, the arrival of farmers from the Middle East after 9,000 years ago catalysed profound population transformations involving mixtures of Middle Eastern-related farmers and local hunter-gatherers. In both cases, the spread of Steppe pastoralists beginning around 5,000 years ago had an equally profound demographic impact, transforming the ancestry of Europe between 4,500-4,000 years ago and India 4,000-3,500 years ago. Mixtures of these three source populations are the primary drivers of genetic variation in both subcontinents today. Presented by The J. Paul Getty Trust Series THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2019 sessions: https://bit.ly/31EHLr0 Links to the other session by David Reich :    • Daniel E. Lieberman, David Reich, Tony Jos...   Links to the other session by Tony Joseph :    • Daniel E. Lieberman, David Reich, Tony Jos...   Social media links: Facebook:   / jaipurlitfes.  . Twitter:   / jaipurlitfest   Instagram:   / jaipurlitfest