David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
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Episode: David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
Pub date: 2026-05-08
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David Reich is back.
He and collaborator Ali Akbari just published a paper that overturns a long-standing consensus about human evolution — that natural selection has been dormant in our species since the agricultural revolution.
By scaling ancient DNA sequencing and developing a new statistical method, they found that selection has…
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