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Published · transcript-backedDavid Reich: prediction
29 Aug 2024 Dwarkesh Podcast David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago
“We think we have many hundreds of places where there's been very strong change in frequency over time, where we're confident, We think there are many thousands where we can see traces, the whole genome is seething with these changes in this period.”
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- David Reich
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- 29 Aug 2024
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Do you have a sense of what those changes might look like, or is it too early to tell? Obviously 10,000 years ago, we're talking about the beginning of agriculture. We're working right now on a study documenting changes over the last 10,000 years in Europe and western Eurasia based on tracing changes in about 8500 high-quality DNA sequences from people from this period. They’ve been collectively accumulated by us and others. We've been working very hard at this, led by Ali Akbari in my group. We think we have many hundreds of places where there's been very strong change in frequency over time, where we're confident, We think there are many thousands where we can see traces, the whole genome is seething with these changes in this period. Can you give us a sneak peek? Do we know what phenotype any particular ones correspond to?…
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