David Reich
8 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by David Reich · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019
Reich: Unidentified Denisovan fossils are already sitting in East Asian museums
“Well, I think it's almost certainly the case that there has been a fossil record found, and it's staring us in the face in museums all around East Asia. So I think if you go to Southern China, or you go to Southeast Asia, or you go to parts of Russia, you will…”
Jan 2, 2019
Reich: A migration from Russia replaced 90% of Britain's population 4,500 years ago
“Was that in this period, beginning about 4500 years ago, there was an absolutely huge population turnover, a massive migration from Russia into Central and Western Europe, where in Germany there was a minimum of 70% population replacement from people who came …”
Jan 2, 2019
Reich: 10,000 years ago West Eurasia had four genetically distinct groups
“But if you go back in time, 10,000 years ago, with the time machine of ancient DNA, and you study genetic material from people who lived in different parts of West Eurasia, we now know from ancient DNA that that region harbored four groups, each as different f…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Reich: Lab generated genome-wide data for roughly 5,000 ancient individuals
“As of the last few weeks, we've obtained genome-wide data from about 5000 people, typically data from up to about one million positions in the genome, and that is enough to support the great majority of analyses of population history that could also be done ev…”
Jan 2, 2019
Reich: Modern human populations are almost entirely products of mass migration
“But what we now know is that that's almost never true, and that the people who live in any one place today are almost always The result of layers and layers of mass migration and population mixture convulsively replacing and changing each population over time,…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Reich: Modern medical care will worsen human genomic health over centuries
“Allowing people to live who would not have done so before through in vitro fertilization or through having glasses, despite correcting very bad eyesight, and as a result, it's probable that there are mutations building up that would not have been building up i…”
Jan 2, 2019
Reich: The family tree model for human populations is hopelessly wrong
“I think we have abandoned the idea of a family tree for thinking about human populations. I think that that model is just so hopelessly wrong that we actually have to think about new mental pictures to think about our relationships to each other.”