David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago
Dwarkesh Patel4 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2024–2025
podcast · general · evergreen · 2024–2025 on HN
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
Highly recommend watching Dwarakesh interviewing Reich: ▶ this 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: ▶ this video It's a really good interview. Recommended if you're an amateur wanting to understand more about human prehistory.
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
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
The image processing in a macaques brain has been doing PCA since way longer. Atleast according to [1], around 1hr36m in. ▶ this video