Top GENETICS EXPERT Says We Got Human Evolution All Wrong

Top GENETICS EXPERT Says We Got Human Evolution All Wrong

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Human Migrations
Oct 18, 2025

Geneticist David Reich suggests that our traditional story of human evolution is not a tapestry, but an erratic patchwork. He uses visuals such as ancient landscapes, scientific charts, and research papers to show how new genetic discoveries are changing what we know about where we come from. This challenges the traditional story of human evolution, suggesting that our origins are much more complicated than we think, so much so that we have an incomplete family tree.


SOURCES:
https://www.mpg.de/13598937/0620-evan...
https://www.mpg.de/11380725/ancient-d...

Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomm...

Nuclear DNA from two early Neandertals reveals 80,000 years of genetic continuity in Europe
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1...

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