David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago
Dwarkesh Patel4 HN recommenders · 2024–2025
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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.
Recommended as a nuanced, up-to-date account of human prehistory from a leading researcher in ancient DNA.
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5 comments from Hacker News
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 [VIDEO]
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. [VIDEO] [LINK]
The image processing in a macaques brain has been doing PCA since way longer. Atleast according to [1], around 1hr36m in. [VIDEO]
Highly recommend watching Dwarakesh interviewing Reich: [VIDEO] You will learn more about human prehistory in that 2 hours than anything else.
David Reich was on the Dwarkesh podcast about a year ago: [VIDEO] It's a really good interview. Recommended if you're an amateur wanting to understand more about human prehistory.