modern humans
4 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Jeffrey Wu · across every show →
Everything said about modern humans, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jeffrey Wu: Modern humans are the sickest cohort in human history
“I think one interesting notion is that we're probably the sickest cohort of humans in the history of humanity. If you look at obesity, Alzheimer's, diabetes, I think one of the latest statistics up to seven percent of Americans are predicted to be obese by 20 …”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Reich: Late Neanderthals descended from one group re-expanding post-crash
“Another thing that we can see is that the late Neanderthals, the ones that modern humans encountered sometime after 50,000 years ago when modern humans spread from Africa, the late Neanderthals really descend from another population crash, one particular group…”
Jan 2, 2019
Reich: Neanderthal genetic diversity is off-the-charts low across the animal kingdom
“If you look at across the entire animal kingdom at how low genetic diversity is, modern humans are at the low end, but they're not off charts. Neanderthals are off charts. They were a population that must have been going through repeated population crashes, di…”