David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
David Reich discusses his new preprint, co-authored with Ali Akbarri, which challenges the long-standing consensus that natural selection has been largely dormant in humans since the agricultural revolution. Their research, based on a massi…
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