2.1M views · Aug 29, 2024 · 1:57:04 · 4 HN recommenders · 5 mentions · discussed 2024–2025
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: 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.”HN comment, 2024
“You will learn more about human prehistory in that 2 hours than anything else.”
Two-hour interview teaching human prehistory through ancient DNA.
Highly recommend watching Dwarakesh interviewing Reich: this video You will learn more about human prehistory in that 2 hours than anything else.
“Go watch the podcast”
Reich explains the 2% Neanderthal view is outdated per recent ancient DNA.
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
“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.”
Nuanced, current account of Out of Africa from a leading researcher.
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
“wanting to understand more about human prehistory”
Good interview for amateurs wanting to learn human prehistory.
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.
Cited for a claim about macaque brain image processing.
The image processing in a macaques brain has been doing PCA since way longer. Atleast according to [1], around 1hr36m in. this video
