The Insight
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Hosts Spencer Wells and Razib Khan take us on a grand tour of human history. They weave together insights from the fields of genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and paleoanthropology.
The Insight
3y ago
Today Razib talks to Anders Bergstrom on the results of a new paper in Science that uses ancient DNA to discover the ancestral lineages of modern dogs. There are some major surprises!
https://razib.substack.com/
https://unsupervisedlearning.libsyn.com/
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6516/557 ..read more
The Insight
3y ago
Razib discusses the new book Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity with one of the authors.
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07ZC6XGGX/geneexpressio-20 ..read more
The Insight
3y ago
Razib talks to evolutionary anthropologist Joe Henrich about his new book, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous, https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07RZFCPMD/geneexpressio-20 ..read more
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3y ago
Razib talks to Stuart Ritchie about his new book, Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1250222699/geneexpressio-20 ..read more
The Insight
4y ago
Razib and Spencer discuss the geography, prehistory, and genetics, of Siberia. Also, the time Spencer experienced a Siberian winter ..read more
The Insight
4y ago
Razib and Spencer discuss why the geology and biogeography of Southeast Asia may explain why it is so important in the history of human evolution. Show notes: https://blog.insito.me/humanitys-second-cradle-in-southeast-asia-cbb26244f08a ..read more
The Insight
4y ago
Razib discusses revolutionary new work published in Nature that tells us that modern humans were present in the Americas 32,000 years ago with one of the authors, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02190-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2509-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2509-0 ..read more
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4y ago
Spencer and Razib talk about what we mean when we say "ghost population" in human genetics, and why it's so important to understand our origins.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842210/
https://www.genetics.org/content/192/3/1065.short ..read more
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4y ago
Razib talks to Alex Ioannidis on the new paper which he is a first author of which argues that there is pre-Columbian Native American ancestry in Eastern Polynesia. Did the Polynesians bring them back from the mainland? Or did they voyage themselves?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2487-2 ..read more
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4y ago
Razib and Spencer talk about what a new ancient DNA paper from Neolithic Ireland suggests about radical inequality and power differentials in early agricultural societies, and what that says about the transition from hunting and gathering more generally https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2378-6
(also, coronavirus update ..read more