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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
I had no idea how wild the story of human evolution was before chatting with the geneticist of ancient DNA David Reich.
Human history has been again and again a story of one group figuring ‘something’ out, and then basically wiping everyone else out.
From the tribe of 1k-10k modern humans... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.comDavid Reich – How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago
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14) Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich
This is the canonical popular summary of Reich’s school of thought, along with Cavalli-Sforza’s older book, The History and Geography of Human Genes. The brief argument is: our true history is written in our genes. Mere texts can be faked, distorted, or lost, but... See more
I have been obsessed with what the geneticist David Reich told me in our interview together.
The story of human evolution we're now learning from new evidence is so crazy.
70,000 years ago, half a dozen different species of humans (Neanderthals, Denisovans, 'Hobbits', etc) lived across... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.comWho We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past
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Wonder what that secretive longevity company funded w/ $3B from @JeffBezos and @yurimilner has been working on?
SCOOP: @altos_labs latest public program is an oligonucleotide inhibiting the retrotransposon LINE-1 to treat progeria. https://t.co/ynsQL2sT8X