2024-08-29
1 小时 56 分钟Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with David Reich,
who is a geneticist of ancient DNA at Harvard.
And David's work and his lab's work and his field's work has transformed,
really transformed our understanding of human history and human evolution.
It's very fascinating stuff from many perspectives.
In its own light, it's very interesting.
From the perspective of...
AI, which I plan on asking you about.
It's interesting to understand human evolution and what that implies about what the future of AI might look like.
Anyways, I'll stop doing the introduction.
David,
we were just chatting before we started recording about what new information you've been studying
since the book came out about archaic humans and the relationship between modern humans and Neanderthals.
Can you explain again what you're studying these days?
Well, I think what's very interesting is that What we have data from now are modern humans,
the sequences of people living today.
And we also have data from Neanderthals,
who are archaic humans who lived in Western Eurasia for the last couple of hundred thousand years.
And we have now sequences from many Neanderthals.
And we also have DNA from Denisovans.