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This theory stood until the 2000s, when new technology reversed it.
這個理論一直持續(xù)到20世紀(jì)才被新技術(shù)推翻。
He had often carped about the public's interest in fossils, so much less informative—to him—than genetic studies of the living.
卡瓦利-斯福扎經(jīng)常抱怨公眾對化石的興趣，化石給他的信息要比現(xiàn)代人類基因研究給他的信息少得多。
Once DNA could be extracted from ancient bones, however,
然而，一旦DNA可以從古化石中提取，
it showed that although agriculture had indeed reached Europe from the Middle East,
就顯示了盡管農(nóng)業(yè)真的是從中東傳到歐洲的，
a wave of immigration from the north-east, starting about 5,000 years ago, had diluted those first farmers with tall herdsmen from the Pontic Steppe.
但是始于約5000年前，從東北過來的移民浪潮——龐蒂克草原的高大牧人——稀釋了第一批農(nóng)民。
People had moved and mixed in prehistory more than he thought;
史前人類的移動和混合遠(yuǎn)比卡瓦利-斯福扎預(yù)料的更多；
and not all ancient events, as he supposed, had left their mark in modern populations.
并不是所有古代的事情，都如卡瓦利-斯福扎料想的那般，在現(xiàn)代人身上留下痕跡。
Even more controversial was his Human Genome Diversity Project, which he set up in the 1990s.
更有爭議的是卡瓦利-斯福扎在20世紀(jì)90年代建立的“人類基因組多樣性項目”。
He wanted to study isolated populations in order to understand where all the others came from;
他想研究孤立的群體以便得知其他群體的來源；
to measure the background of drift, or genetic change, that takes place without marauding or migration.
為得知在沒有劫掠或移民的情況下，人類漂流或是基因改變的背景。
Some people thought this racist, and a more worldly man might have realised that.
一些人認(rèn)為這是種族主義，更世俗的人可能會這樣想。
A few critics even brought up his membership of Benito Mussolini's fascist youth organisation, compulsory before the war.
一些批評家甚至提出他是二戰(zhàn)前貝尼托·墨索里尼發(fā)起的法西斯青年組織的義務(wù)成員。
All this dismayed him, as he had done so much to strike down "scientific" studies based on race.
所有這一切都讓他感到沮喪，因為他做了這么多都是為了摧毀基于“種族”的科學(xué)研究。
The project died in its original form, though it was resurrected as the Genographic Project, which goes on.
這個項目最初的形式消亡了，盡管它作為基因工程又復(fù)活了，現(xiàn)在還在繼續(xù)。
From Belluno he witnessed the overturning of many other conclusions.
從貝盧諾開始，卡瓦利-斯福扎見證了很多結(jié)論的顛覆。
Every evolutionary story he had touched became more complex by the day.
他曾接觸過的進(jìn)化的說法都日漸變得復(fù)雜起來。
Yet he could comfort himself that without his original vision for the study of human history through its genes, much of that great debate would not have happened at all.
但是，值得欣慰的是，沒有卡瓦利-斯福扎通過基因研究人類歷史的最初版本，大部分這樣的偉大辯論都將不會發(fā)生。
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