Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedDavid Reich: uncertainty
29 Aug 2024 Dwarkesh Podcast David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago
“We don't know that. We just know that today we have it. It could have been only a couple of hundred thousand years ago or 100,000 years ago that these changes happened.”
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- David Reich
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- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 29 Aug 2024
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…To the extent that humans have had it for hundreds of thousands of years, it's not clear then why humans weren't able to expand out of Africa and… We don't know that. We just know that today we have it. It could have been only a couple of hundred thousand years ago or 100,000 years ago that these changes happened. But then we know all modern humans have them, different groups of modern humans.…
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