4 HN users recommended this podcast episode3 months2024–2025score 3.5
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Recommended as a nuanced, up-to-date account of human prehistory from a leading researcher in ancient DNA.
Dwarkesh Patel interviews ancient-DNA geneticist David Reich about human prehistory, including the small group that left Africa around 70,000 years ago and the Yamnaya expansion.
“David Reich is probably the leading researcher in this field and his description of our best guesses is highly nuanced and open to new data.” (HN, 2024)
dont have time to find it. he basically says the 2% thing is an antiquated understanding that conflicts with recent ancient dna studies. Go watch the podcast [this video]
Reich explains the 2% Neanderthal view is outdated per recent ancient DNA.
The current "Out of Africa" is really not the same as what you might have learned 2-3 decades ago, despite the branding. David Reich is probably the leading researcher in this field and his description of our best guesses is highly nuanced and open to new data. [this video] [link]
Nuanced, current account of Out of Africa from a leading researcher.
David Reich was on the Dwarkesh podcast about a year ago: [this video] It's a really good interview. Recommended if you're an amateur wanting to understand more about human prehistory.
Good interview for amateurs wanting to learn human prehistory.
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