David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago on HackerTube: recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 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.
“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.”
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Highly recommend watching Dwarakesh interviewing Reich: ▶ this video You will learn more about human prehistory in that 2 hours than anything else.
in “Deeper Than Deep: David Reich's genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past (2017)” · View on HN
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.
in “Deeper Than Deep: David Reich's genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past (2017)” · View on HN
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]
in “Oldest human genomes reveal how a small group burst out of Africa” · View on HN
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
in “Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction” · View on HN
The image processing in a macaques brain has been doing PCA since way longer. Atleast according to [1], around 1hr36m in. ▶ this video
in “AI Reveals Secrets of Dendritic Growth in Thin Films” · View on HN