David Reich

Yeah, I love that metaphor.

And I got to say, I was reading David Reich's book a few months ago for the class that I teach.

And it was my second read.

And every time I read it, I'm like, just blown away by what ancient DNA has already told us.

And the New York Times published it saying, you know, we better... get ready for this, it's coming, you know, cognitive differences.

It's David Reich.

David Reich, okay.

David Reich is

also a professor at Harvard who wrote, as you say, that, yeah, the science is coming, that the race, that the deniers, that the people who say that there are no group differences in traits like intelligence are going against the science.

Now, there's no way Steven Pinker is going to hem and haw or say anything anything even the slightest bit favorable about Jared Taylor and his outfit, where he's not going to talk about the reason we need to do this is because white kids are learning to despise themselves.

So this mosaicism, as they migrate, leads to, as I said, a lot of gene flow between different hominid species.

So there's this great book by David Reich, and I recommend it to people that might be interested in it.

This is the science of sequencing ancient DNA.

So you become much, much better at sequencing DNA that you find in fossils because of new technology that's able to get rid of sort of the bacterial contaminants and DNA and so forth.

And they emerged in all different locales in Africa, partially.

I skipped over this, but the genetic data suggests that the populations in Africa are connected by gene flow.

And this goes back to that book, David Reich, that I talked about where you start to sequence sort of DNA from different fossils, and you're able to sort of piece together how diverse or how related different fossils might be.

It does seem that these populations in different parts of Africa were not genetic ELISA.

Well, the other alternative is we get groperism, neo-Nazism.

Because the neo-Nazis As I'm sure you know, David Reich published a paper recently in the journal Nature.

Six months ago, yeah.

On recent selection for intelligence in West Eurasians.

This is mainstream science now.

They can't hide it.

Then look at the way David Reich sidestepped it so carefully, making sure to keep us looking away from that paragraph.

Right.

And Yeah, there are cool ideas that come out of it.

Or human migration is, you read any David Reich stuff on human migration, it's crazy.

Basically, the humans have lived everywhere they love going traveling humans love traveling and they love uh hooking up with any everybody that's basically what if that's somewhat up in a nutshell i think if you think people are from a place where they say they're from they're probably not they're probably from somewhere else to be honest we're all just roaming around in circles so yeah adna is good fun topic um but it's difficult difficult data to deal with

and then like other cool stuff like i can mention again more in our space mentioned like interesting things or pathogens people are now actually looking into more historical collections of like formaldehyde preserved things where you know someone 200 years ago said oh it's probably this but now ancient rna is starting to enter the picture which quite exciting there's a few groups working on that seeing if they can get that and another cool thing of a group that i love they were actually looking at using historical bear calculus to track the use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in farm animals in Sweden.