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179 | David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is There a Migration and Mixture in Human History?

People often have a picture in their minds that the descent, they descent from people who have been there forever. But genetic data makes it absolutely clear that there are very few, if maybe no, groups in the world that don't have major mixture as part of their history. So i think that's a bigger sort of pattern that becomes very clear when one studies this type of data - migration and mixture are very central and integral to us.

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