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Bronze Age natural selection
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What experts have said about Bronze Age natural selection
3 statements · 2 positive · 1 negative
Selection intensified during the Bronze Age, making it an evolutionary inflection point.
“the intensification happens like 5,000 years ago, 4,000 years ago. And so it's really interesting, this observation of that being a key point, that being an inflection point”
Open the episode · David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolutionListen at 25:55
The Bronze Age’s longer duration allowed selection effects to become detectable.
“The Bronze age is not 300 years years, it's 3,000 years. It's the power of compound interest. And you have enough time to begin to see a strong effect.”
Open the episode · David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolutionListen at 28:44
Bronze Age selection was probably not caused primarily by population size becoming large enough.
“I think that's not likely to be true”
Open the episode · David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolutionListen at 1:00:35
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