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David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago: chapters

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  1. 0:00 · Archaic lineage models
  2. 6:59 · Uncertain geography
  3. 10:29 · African population structure
  4. 15:00 · Cognition and gene flow
  5. 20:24 · Cultural innovation question
  6. 22:18 · Vocal tract methylation
  7. 27:11 · Brains language and analogy
  8. 30:43 · Cultural accumulation hypotheses
  9. 33:52 · Founders and contingency
  10. 38:42 · Agriculture and demography
  11. 42:00 · Plague and population decline
  12. 48:17 · Pathogens and historical change
  13. 51:34 · Selection and preliminary results
  14. 56:21 · Adaptation and population growth
  15. 59:28 · Migration and archaeology
  16. 1:06:43 · Social organisation and mixture
  17. 1:15:39 · Surviving neanderthal ancestry
  18. 1:20:36 · Agriculture and contingency
  19. 1:24:54 · Archaeology and repeated mixture
  20. 1:28:46 · Ancestry at different times