David Reich
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Geneticist at Harvard Medical School, whose laboratory studies human history and biological change through ancient DNA.
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26 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Natural selection in humans has not been quiescent: it is tugging almost every position in the genome in one direction or another, everywhere. (opens korrents.com)
“In fact, multiple analyses we do suggest that the genome is vibrating with natural selection, and uh there's all sorts of weaker effects that are there that would be picked up in larger studies even than we've done. Uh…”
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Adaptation accounts for only about 2% of the change in human gene frequencies; the other 98% is migration, mixture and drift. (opens korrents.com)
“Uh and 98% of it is other factors, especially genetic drift. So it's overwhelmingly migrations and population structure causing fluctuations in frequency.”
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The Bronze Age, not the invention of farming, was the shock the human genome reacted to most strongly. (opens korrents.com)
“our cartoon picture is that the big transition is farming, but the genetic data, the biological readout is saying our genome is reacting much more strongly to this these events that happened 5,000 years ago.”
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Natural selection in humans has not been quiescent: it is tugging almost every position in the genome in one direction or another, everywhere. (opens korrents.com)
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The Fate of Rome (opens rcmnd.app)
“There's an amazing book by Kyle Harper. It's called The Fate of Rome. He's a Roman historian. It's a history of three major plagues in the Roman period, two of which are really not even very well known.”
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The Fate of Rome (opens rcmnd.app)