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September 25, 2026
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
Dwarkesh Podcast · David Reich · 2 hr 13 min
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A geneticist reads ancient DNA like a history book and finds a far stranger, more mixed human story than we were taught.
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What story about your origins have you never questioned?
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