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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.
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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
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