The Most Current Understanding of the Human Genome (including controversial takes)

Описание: As we learn more and more about the human genome, and what explains the differences between people groups, I have been seeing a lot of this data be manipulated or just misunderstood by many people. In this video I hope to just dive straight into the most controversial claims around human DNA and gene studies. To steelman even the most controversial interpretations, seeing how and why these views fall apart even by their own standards.

Timestamps

00:50 Very first life, how we all share DNA, basic framework to understand term

08:11 Homo Genus Emerges

15:22 Archaic Ghost DNA found only in Africans, and how this is often presented in a very misleading way

25:40 Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Adam

31:30 Migrations

36:39 How one of the world's most popular symbols of all time maps onto the migration paths and timelines proposed by academics, that even this art matches what we see in the genes and archeology.

38:26 The Multiregional Evolutionary Model. All forms, from homo erectus in different regions evolved into the modern humans we see there today, i.e. how we get races. To an even further back look at is races evolved from hominids that were spread all over Earth.

44:16 The “Best Case” for Genetic Based Racism. Steelmanning the idea that tiny percentages across races could have a major effect. And why this claim is internally inconsistent, and does not map onto what it proponents hope for.

47:58 The Debate Should Be On Culture, Not Genes or Races.

Sources
Overview of Hominin Evolution https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowl...

Neanderthal DNA in Africans
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Multiple Deeply Divergent Denisovan Ancestries in Papuans
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0...

Excellent Breakdown
https://magazine.scienceforthepeople....

Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156...

Khoe-San Genomes Reveal Unique Variation and Confirm the Deepest Population Divergence in Homo sapiens: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

How to calculate genetic difference across races
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixatio...

A DNA Genealogy Solution to the Puzzle of Ancient
Look-Alike Ceramics across the World
https://www.scirp.org/html/35722.html