David Reich — How One Small Tribe Conquered The World 70,000 Years Ago Fiat Panda [GdkiQHD3K7S]

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I had no idea how wild human history 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 who killed off all the other human species 70,000 years ago, to the Yamnaya steppe nomads 5,000 who killed off 90+% of (then) Europeans and also destroyed the Indus Valley Civilization. So much of what we thought we knew about human history is turning mikal bridges out to loose women be wrong, from the Out of Africa theory to the evolution of language, and this is all thanks to the research from David Reichs lab.

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00:00:00 Archaic and modern humans gene flow

00:21:13 How early modern humans dominated the world

00:40:49 How the bubonic plague rewrote history

00:50:52 sean longstaff Was agriculture terrible for humans?

01:00:18 Yamnaya expansion and how populations collide

01:16:29 Lost civilizations and our Neanderthal ancestry

01:32:22 The DNA Challenge

01:42:37 India's caste system

01:47:40 David's Career