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SCOUT· 30%2h 13m·2026-05-08·InterviewsDavid Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
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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…
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