Geneticist explains ancient DNA

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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024

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  • @StefanMilo
    @StefanMilo  28 дней назад +52

    Big thanks to KiwiCo for sponsoring this video! Check out www.kiwico.com/stefan and use code STEFAN for 50% off your first crate of a monthly club.

    • @DryptosaurusDavid
      @DryptosaurusDavid 28 дней назад +2

      I want to ask a question to a science communicator.
      If I want to make videos on archaeological sites and history like Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Polynesia, and I do as much reasearch into archaeology as possible, and do my best to tell every fact as possible, will I be labeled as a Pseudo-archaeologist or a science communicator?

    • @InternetStranger476
      @InternetStranger476 28 дней назад +1

      Wholesome sponsor, nice job

    • @americannapalm
      @americannapalm 27 дней назад

      You have evidence of their artwork but it's dismissed downplayed or completely misunderstood. The Venus of hohle fels is way more sophisticated than is realized. Start by turning it upside down

    • @jinxedfates
      @jinxedfates 27 дней назад +1

      my neice and nephew are about to love this lol

    • @Neilhuny
      @Neilhuny 27 дней назад

      50% is a great discount!!

  • @oro7114
    @oro7114 27 дней назад +248

    The joy on this mans face when he discusses DNA is amazing, love seeing someone so passionate about there field

    • @mickvonbornemann3824
      @mickvonbornemann3824 27 дней назад +4

      Yeh, I don’t know who Stefan is & where he comes from (NZ?), but I love his videos too.

    • @TonyArrison
      @TonyArrison 27 дней назад +4

      @@mickvonbornemann3824 hes british

    • @rdklkje13
      @rdklkje13 27 дней назад +7

      Yes! Laurits’s enthusiasm put a smile on my face throughout this video, very contageous 😍

    • @christinakirtley-duffy1028
      @christinakirtley-duffy1028 26 дней назад +4

      I thought the same thing, and since I am currently studying DNA that enthusiasm is infections!

    • @jilewa
      @jilewa 23 дня назад +1

      Nothing more joyous than nerds nerding out 🤓🥳🥰

  • @Buffalozilla
    @Buffalozilla 27 дней назад +135

    Uploading an hour long video at midnight is diabolical Stephan

  • @deathwarmedover
    @deathwarmedover 28 дней назад +198

    You know it's a good week when you get Stefan Milo and Dan Davis in the same time frame. Awesome stuff Stefan.

    • @LudosErgoSum
      @LudosErgoSum 28 дней назад +14

      Dan Davis is the boss!!!💪💪💪

    • @buttpub
      @buttpub 27 дней назад

      good video yet again, but a good week? nah, this has been a shitty week

    • @FischerNilsA
      @FischerNilsA 26 дней назад +2

      @@LudosErgoSum He is a great writer.
      But I sooo want him to be able to pay a decent voice actor for his YT.
      The man can make me fall asleep in a few sentences with his monotone, droning, constantly cut, painstakingly-reading-from-the-script-voice with no cadence worth mentioning
      I like very much what he has to tell. B ut he says it in a style inducing heavy sleepiness and boredom.
      In me at least.

    • @rowanpost6063
      @rowanpost6063 26 дней назад +3

      ​@@FischerNilsA big disagree

    • @temujanradari1105
      @temujanradari1105 24 дня назад +1

      ​@@rowanpost6063Concur! He has a distinct non-AI voice that I always know when a video of his autoplays

  • @mythosboy
    @mythosboy 27 дней назад +64

    Good lord, the tree analogy and counting the differences alone seriously made a hard, hard concept much more solid. You guys should work together more often: with you standing in for us and his guidance with this difficult topic. Great material.

    • @alaskapuss
      @alaskapuss 24 дня назад

      You should watch any of Svante Pääbo's lectures! He's really good at explaining it.

  • @SupahGeck
    @SupahGeck 27 дней назад +96

    Holy crap I watched the Nebula special about ancient people's fascination with medicinal plants and totally didn't expect a whole different hour episode to drop too! I appreciate you going hard for us man.

    • @icedcoffee222
      @icedcoffee222 27 дней назад +9

      Hey what’s that nebula special please? Sounds interesting

    • @username65585
      @username65585 27 дней назад

      @@icedcoffee222Nebula is a streaming service created by RUclipsrs. Creators create exclusive videos for Nebula and also release their RUclips videos early there without ads.

    • @JohnSmith-sk7cg
      @JohnSmith-sk7cg 27 дней назад +1

      @@icedcoffee222 Pretty sure RUclips's comments would autodelete you if you tried to type the title of the video. It's the first user of a certain plant in human history.

    • @vulcanfeline
      @vulcanfeline 26 дней назад +1

      @@JohnSmith-sk7cg sounds like a can of bis

  • @dannybrown5744
    @dannybrown5744 27 дней назад +51

    Im so glad i have a bell for Milo. Always good contest for years now, with the plastic spoon and during covid you kept me from going bonkers

  • @SiqueScarface
    @SiqueScarface 27 дней назад +39

    I like how the "Neander" in Neanderthals literally means "new man". And the story behind the actual name is quite interesting too. It started out with a scholar and Lutheran priest in Bremen, Germany in the 17th century with the name Johann Joachim Neumann (Newman), who, in the fashion of the time, translated his name into Greek Neo Andros or short Neander to be more unique. His grandson, Joachim Neander, became a famous church hymn writer, so famous in fact, that the town council of Mettmann, Germany, decided to rename a lime rock formation, formerly called Hundsklipp (Dog's Cliff) into Neanderthal (Neander's Valley). The lime stone was mined for cement production, and that's where they found the bones of a new species of humans, literally a "new man" in "New Man's Valley".
    Today, you can take the suburban train line S28 from Düsseldorf, and step out at Neanderthal Station and be around real, living Neanderthals (people living in Neanderthal).

    • @oldernu1250
      @oldernu1250 27 дней назад +3

      Thanks for sharing that story. Reminds me of James Burke's series Connections. So many interactions cause understanding to grow.

    • @nickfosterxx
      @nickfosterxx 21 день назад

      Very cool, thank you.

    • @raempftl
      @raempftl 15 дней назад

      And here is another interesting twist: In 1906 Germany had a spelling reform. One of the things that was changed was that it was thought to be superfluous to show that German Ts are aspirated by writing an H after each T because all Ts are aspirated in German.
      So the spelling of Thal (valley) changed to Tal.
      The new rules were optional for proper names. But the Neanderthal and the species named after it both are now spelled Neandertal and Neandertaler, respectively, in German.

    • @SiqueScarface
      @SiqueScarface 15 дней назад

      @@raempftl And to add to the twist: The railway station is still called Neanderthal, despite the suburb being renamed to Neandertal.

    • @raempftl
      @raempftl 14 дней назад

      @@SiqueScarface Really? I went there last year and completely missed that!

  • @cjscorah
    @cjscorah 27 дней назад +14

    I like Stefan' s lightbulb moments. And Laurits' enthusiasm. Wonderful video, what a treat

  • @t1t0s89
    @t1t0s89 27 дней назад +34

    It's funny seeing these tools being used and explained to one of my favourite anthropology creators.
    And really cool that deamination was so easily visualised. As a molecular biologist it's one of the reasons we use slightly alkaline buffers to store DNA because acidic environments leads to deamination.

    • @omgmo1962
      @omgmo1962 27 дней назад +9

      Also mol bio, I love seeing our field being explained and people realizing the scope of it all! DNA is AMAZING

  • @DorchesterMom
    @DorchesterMom 26 дней назад +8

    I can acutely visualize Laurits as a younger child going on and on about his latest special interest - the enthusiasm he shows in teaching Milo is so wholesome and contagious ❤ How awesome is this? I can see why he’s a three time guest speaker.
    Thanks guys!

  • @fred5763
    @fred5763 27 дней назад +25

    @19:05 "Little powerhouses"... "The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" echos in my mind

  • @69Buddha
    @69Buddha 27 дней назад +64

    Laurits was absolutely fantastic! I didn't realize this was over an hour long when I started, but I enjoyed every minute of it. I particularly love the geneticist question (not specifically stated, but inferred) of "how different does DNA have to get before we draw a line and say 'new species?'" I think we like things arranged neatly into boxes, and I also think nature just doesn't care.

    • @drcurioustube
      @drcurioustube 27 дней назад +3

      Science without definitions would be difficult

    • @rdklkje13
      @rdklkje13 27 дней назад +11

      My favourite comment in this respect came from David Reich. He made the point that for all we know, those of us who are non-Africans are not modern humans with a bit of Neanderthal DNA, but Neanderthals whose ancestors admixed with wave after wave of modern humans as they were leaving Africa. He said this would be just as valid an interpretation of our current data.

    • @annepoitrineau5650
      @annepoitrineau5650 12 дней назад

      nature really does not care.

  • @GeneaVlogger
    @GeneaVlogger 24 дня назад +10

    This was really interesting! While I know a lot about DNA through my work in genetic genealogy, this filled in a lot of various gaps in my knowledge. The part about finding 'new' species was especially fascinating because it sounds like a technique we use in genetic genealogy called ancestral reconstructed genomes, where we use the DNA of multiple known cousins from a family to reconstruct the genome of their shared ancestor.

  • @Neilhuny
    @Neilhuny 27 дней назад +39

    Thank-you to Laurits Skov for being so damned good at explaining everything

  • @krickrack
    @krickrack 13 дней назад +2

    This is by far the greatest video on how DNA works I've seen on youtube!

  • @philomenahearn1717
    @philomenahearn1717 27 дней назад +24

    Thank you Milo for introducing us to such diverse and obscure subjects but that still follow our archaeological thread. This topic had me feeling puzzled as you often looked …. But it became clearer by the end. And yes the tangent over Chinese data compared to European data ( no doubt we have USA to thank for that data) was particularly interesting tome - I had my dna and that of my daughter compared on two different dna research sites. One was more “accurate” than the other and it was because one was more USA based and the other relied more on family trees from paper/historic records… an illegitimate grandmother put a spanner in the works records wise but dna showed that her father was from the Indian continent. The site relying on predominantly paper records missed that connection (even though they claimed to use dna) so perhaps it was also down to their company not having enough diverse dna data

  • @epochalypsemeow5732
    @epochalypsemeow5732 27 дней назад +38

    The visual of Stefan’s wheels turning in his mind while listening is 🤌🤌 Amazing as always!

  • @davidharrison7072
    @davidharrison7072 27 дней назад +16

    I really enjoyed that introduction to ancient genetics. I feel like I understand it so much better now. I'm so thrilled by all the information ancient DNA is providing about the past, but details and the science behind it can seem daunting. Thanks for tackling this topic!

  • @theg0z0n
    @theg0z0n 24 дня назад +3

    Smilo Bro, if you read this, thank you for having Laurits back. his energy is just great. And real talk, thanks for showing when you're really thinking about what he's saying, parsing the knowledge in real time. I think it's important for people to see even knowledgeable people like you learning, and not just knowing.
    Anyway, Thanks Smilo, your efforts make some random dude in the southern US' day better!

  • @ben8521
    @ben8521 27 дней назад +3

    How lucky are we to be able to listen to two enlightened individuals discussing such interesting topic with so much passion, with a single click. Thank you Stefan and Laurits.

  • @rosssmith8087
    @rosssmith8087 27 дней назад +12

    Thank you Stefan for an awesome video on a topic I've been wanting to understand. It's fair to say I still don't really understand (this video is going to get a lot of repeat views), but it is such a an amazing subject that really enriches who we are and where we have come from. Laurits did a fantastic job at trying to explain such a complex topic. I think at the end of the day I'm going to trust the science and all the people like Laurits doing this work. I can't wait to see more of this story unfold.

  • @salathe
    @salathe 27 дней назад +7

    I just want to say that this is an incredible episode.

  • @vickiwalker3486
    @vickiwalker3486 26 дней назад +3

    Wonderful experience for me as an ancient English major! I do enjoy your channel, Milo, and thanks for your ongoing discussions with guests like Laurits Skov.

  • @DALLYWALL2015
    @DALLYWALL2015 27 дней назад +5

    I have had questions about this for so long. I'm very excited to watch. Just quality content Stefan!

  • @kwlalfie
    @kwlalfie 27 дней назад +6

    I don't normally comment on videos but I have to say thank you for making such interesting content dude! i'm a layman but the way you (and Laurits Skov) explain stuff has me fascinated in ancient human genetics!!

  • @daveb7122
    @daveb7122 27 дней назад +4

    I loved the sentence analogy! Really great way to explain things that are similar, different and stand out even when you dont know where it came from

  • @sharkyhmh
    @sharkyhmh 27 дней назад +3

    Learned more about biology from these two in a windowless room, than I have in decades of life. Awesome video!

  • @huffalot6764
    @huffalot6764 27 дней назад +4

    Wow! Big thanks to Laurits for taking time to do this. 🤯

  • @callistaaguilar
    @callistaaguilar 9 дней назад +2

    Finally I have a horrible virus so I can stay home and catch up on Stefan Milo. I wish I could love DNA and genetics like this dude. He has pure joy as he explains the beauty of it. My brain is exploding. The amount of mutations!

  • @paulwhite6995
    @paulwhite6995 27 дней назад +12

    Really wish after that I had a beer in the fridge!
    Very enlightening. Laurits Skov is a great communicator and filled in some blanks for me too.

    • @fridocalifornia6276
      @fridocalifornia6276 27 дней назад

      Loarie Scott

    • @paulwhite6995
      @paulwhite6995 27 дней назад +1

      @@fridocalifornia6276 thanks for that. Just pasted the name from the introduction: "Geneticist Laurits Skov sits down to discuss all things..."

  • @fusilly__
    @fusilly__ 27 дней назад +2

    This is the first time I really understood a lot of the stuff that Svante Pääbo and others have talked about regarding ancient dna. Thanks to both of you for explaining it with great examples and for asking the right questions.

  • @DryptosaurusDavid
    @DryptosaurusDavid 28 дней назад +32

    Never been this early to a video about human history.

  • @kurtoogle4576
    @kurtoogle4576 27 дней назад +4

    Laurits Skov is a pretty awesome guy and I love his research!! Thanks for covering this in-depth! We learned a lot!

  • @AWildBard
    @AWildBard 27 дней назад +4

    Great stuff!
    I appreciate your questions Stefan Milo, I felt the same way. It's not easy to take in right away but totally fascinating. And big thanks to Laurits Skov for answering the questions with such enthusiasm and detail.

  • @Davey-Boyd
    @Davey-Boyd 25 дней назад +3

    That was absolutely fascinating Stefan! Thank you both!

  • @HavardStreAndresen
    @HavardStreAndresen 27 дней назад +3

    Sometimes I go back, and rewatch your videos. Thats how good they are😄

  • @kb3964
    @kb3964 27 дней назад +8

    Really enjoyed this and actually understood when you both broke it down. Thanks so much, look for to collab four in the future.

  • @martinlea224
    @martinlea224 27 дней назад +2

    Fascinating. Thank you Stefan and Laurits. Very intellectually stimulating.

  • @paulsherriff6337
    @paulsherriff6337 27 дней назад +2

    What an excellent guest. Thank you a brilliant one Stefan.

  • @simonereadstexts
    @simonereadstexts 27 дней назад +6

    that last bit was a real eye-opener, because I'd just been reading about stuff that only survives in the *textual* record through quotation, and maybe, maybe, allusion in some other sources and trying to work out the contours of that
    people jumping between Spain, Norht Africa and the Levant around 900 CE were maybe doing the same kind of thing in more ways than one

  • @TheStarBlack
    @TheStarBlack 27 дней назад +3

    I love that such a huge part of human history is just us finding new and interesting people to bonk!

  • @nikolavideomaker
    @nikolavideomaker 26 дней назад +1

    I doubt you will ever see this, but thank you for all of this content. I am a Molecular Biology student, who has always had a passion in history. And only last year I found out about ancient DNA, largely through you. I have decided to pursue a PhD in the field after I finish my master's degree. I hope that one day we can talk some on the topic. Cheers!

    • @GoBlueGirl78
      @GoBlueGirl78 14 дней назад

      I studied molecular biology too, it’s great to hear younger people are so interested in it, it’s truly a fascinating science, especially when we add history into it. Best wishes on your PhD!

  • @Chompchompyerded
    @Chompchompyerded 27 дней назад +7

    That looked more like an iced late than a beer, but either way, it must have been good, and was well deserved. My thanks probably aren't worth much, but I'll offer it anyway. This video was very interesting. I'm glad that I'm not in any classes in which Laurits Skov is teaching, because I'm afraid I'd be asking endless questions which would drive him nuts, and would either get a muzzle put on me, or get me removed from class entirely. This is just fascinating science that simply wasn't around when I was in college. We thought we were too hot to touch because we'd figured out how to date things using nuclear decay. The big news of the day was remains of an ancient up-right walking, gracile ape who the discoverer had whimsically named "Lucy". Neanderthals were oafish hunchbacks which we might or might not be related to, and there was a first year professor who was stirring the departmental pot by making the wild claim that not only were they related to us, but that if you put a suit coat and tie on one, gave him a good shave, and made him wear a hat, he probably wouldn't stand out much from all the other people running around the city at the time. I had a hard time deciding if that was a serious dis- of the people who lived there at the time, or if they actually were that similar to us. As we learn more, things change, and that is the beauty of scientific thought. I only wish the battle over new ideas didn't have to be so contentious. I don't know... Maybe it needs to be that way. I went on to be a very successful concert musician and professor of music, where the wars aren't so much like blood sport, though they can get quite serious if and when someone's bull gets gored. Oh Academia, I am so glad I'm divorced from you by retirement... but at the same time I'm not. Strange, this love hate relationship.

  • @sarcastaball
    @sarcastaball 28 дней назад +20

    One hour video from mr Milo? Yes please! ❤

  • @ruththinkingoutside.707
    @ruththinkingoutside.707 27 дней назад +2

    Perfect start for the one morning off! .. Stefan talking about Neanderthals!!
    Thank you!!!😊

  • @robertdiehl1281
    @robertdiehl1281 27 дней назад +2

    Always so grateful for a Stefan Milo archaeological video. Just fun learning.

  • @mikejay3713
    @mikejay3713 27 дней назад +3

    Lets goo! New Stephan Milo. milo Rossi, Lindsay Nikole, and new Casual Geographic all in one week!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @emo-sup-sock
    @emo-sup-sock 27 дней назад +1

    Always happy to see a new video from you on my homepage :) You've turned me into a major archeology and anthropology nerd. I had a brief stint in academia and very much enjoy seeing this sort of "what's on the scientist's screen" stuff, I miss it quite a bit.

  • @ohyeayea6692
    @ohyeayea6692 27 дней назад +4

    Listened to the whole video; have little idea what was going on but picked up a couple of points. Still, overall I found it very interesting, quite profound and maybe not as difficult to understand as I had imagined.

  • @imperfectclark
    @imperfectclark 27 дней назад +6

    Always good vibes... love learning about human origins with Stefan 👍

  • @liammelville8704
    @liammelville8704 25 дней назад +2

    A neat coincidence, I am currently taking a Pestilence in Antiquity class and we talk about aDNA all of the time. So this video was great at reinforcing some of the ideas I learned in class, Molecular Clock Analysis, SNPs, Phylogenetic trees, and how the actual process of comparing aDNA to modern DNA samples.

  • @Lerial-v8q
    @Lerial-v8q 27 дней назад +1

    Thanks a lot for this. Laurits is such a nerd but I actually felt I understood this even though I am far from a science major. The analogy with the Nordic languages was SO spot on! Keep up the good work Stefan and keep giving us stuff that is a little hard to grasp.
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  • @Petty_Mason
    @Petty_Mason 27 дней назад +2

    Awww my alma mater GO BEARS ‘’93. Thank you for the fascinating vid and for the sweet nostalgia. Lucy was in my anthro lab and started my fascination w archaeology

  • @robertvesetas8751
    @robertvesetas8751 25 дней назад +1

    Spooky Sefan, at 17:17 I saw GATTACA.... Fantastic interview.

  • @efowlermail
    @efowlermail 9 дней назад +1

    Awesome interview, learned alot.

  • @JanjayTrollface
    @JanjayTrollface 27 дней назад +1

    Awesome! Cheers for asking a few of the same questions I've wanted clarification on over the last year or so

  • @danielm81
    @danielm81 27 дней назад +2

    That was great! Thanks to both of you!

  • @basilbrushbooshieboosh5302
    @basilbrushbooshieboosh5302 27 дней назад +3

    I'm a science teacher but it's genetics that still ties me in knots.

  • @Etothe2iPi
    @Etothe2iPi 27 дней назад +4

    I may look lazy, but I'm EXTREMELY busy on the cellular level.

  • @KetchupLettuce
    @KetchupLettuce 27 дней назад +1

    The new haircut looks great! Adding a fade to the humble buzzcut is simple and adds quite a bit of sophistication

  • @Reginaldesq
    @Reginaldesq 27 дней назад +2

    Thanks Stefan and thanks Laurits. Awesome

  • @eternalfizzer
    @eternalfizzer 2 часа назад

    This is amazing - thanks so much for slogging thru the details so we can gain an inkling of what is happening in your field. I appreciate watching someone who has mastery of a topic explain to someone who still remembers what the most abecedarian questions are. Thanks to Laurits for sharing his passion and Stefan for patiently teasing out answers to stretch the brains of viewers without degrees in the subjects.

  • @phillipmitchell2254
    @phillipmitchell2254 27 дней назад +2

    Stefan! Thank you for existing king

  • @iDk-dp1bi
    @iDk-dp1bi 27 дней назад +6

    You’re currently carrying me (motivationally) through my archaeology degree

  • @oscartjerrild9689
    @oscartjerrild9689 27 дней назад +3

    I was giggling so much over the fact that they kept bringing up the example of Laurits' mom being homo erectus and no disrespect to Laurids or his mom but that's just such a funny thought to me. Imagine a homo erectus just living in modern-day Denmark and no one noticing. Should be a sitcom.

  • @S-uuuu
    @S-uuuu 27 дней назад +2

    What an excellent video. I really enjoyed this. Thanks lads!

  • @icedcoffee222
    @icedcoffee222 27 дней назад +2

    Hey Stefan your content is amazing I look forward to your videos all the time! Thanks for all your hard work! Keep em coming x

  • @Gfoot1
    @Gfoot1 27 дней назад +4

    Title: How can we find new species of ancient human?
    Stefan when Laurits Skov appears in the first second: "I found him!"
    You're ruthless to your guests, Stefan 😂

  • @jasonburbank2047
    @jasonburbank2047 27 дней назад +3

    So incredibly wholesome and fascinating!

  • @siberianfastfood
    @siberianfastfood 24 дня назад +1

    Epic video. And so cool that low production videos can be that good if they have the right content and are presented by the right people. Absolutely crisp, I always wanted to know how working on these things look like in real life. Now I know. Thanks Stefan !

  • @stirwoodcraft
    @stirwoodcraft 2 часа назад

    Just watched this on Nebula, I learnt more about how DNA is looked at, more here than anywhere else I've come across.
    Thanks so much to you both 💛

  • @Exit311
    @Exit311 25 дней назад

    You mention that you're lucky to have access to experts but it's really more of a testament to your informed enthusiasm and effectiveness as an educator

  • @Idellphany
    @Idellphany 27 дней назад +2

    As someone who sorts her DNA matches for fun, to confirm my family tree.... I am so happy to see the same techniques at a global scale!! and I am working on dna painting my X chromosome from my grandmother also! Thank you so much!

  • @evanozaroff4742
    @evanozaroff4742 13 дней назад +1

    Love this deep dive into something I would otherwise probably never get the chance to see. Super interesting

  • @DemetriSelas-u6o
    @DemetriSelas-u6o 23 дня назад

    Thanks for your channel Stefan.
    Thanks for your interest in the topic because we learn from your knowledge and enthusiasm.

  • @WillaLamour
    @WillaLamour 14 дней назад +1

    This is an AWESOME video. Thank you Laurits and Stefan. Brilliant. I’ve learnt soooooo much.

  • @patricio.brevis-acuna
    @patricio.brevis-acuna 26 дней назад

    That was a great conversation.
    The signs of good research sometimes are: 1). data or evidence over egos; 2). gradual advancement in knowledge (baby steps at a time); 3. Embrace uncertainty (research that generates more questions than answers).
    I saw all of that during the chat. I feel that the link between linguistics and palaeogenetics is still underutilised.
    There are language hotspots like PNG which probably hold huge human diversity, and the answer to many questions regarding ancient human migration.

  • @lurkst3r
    @lurkst3r 27 дней назад

    Yayyyy another Stefan vod - Bish bosh booosh! 🥳
    My brain absolutely struggled ngl but shout out to Laurits - what a legend, so smart! Key takeaway - its all in the small differences!

  • @BoraBaeOT7
    @BoraBaeOT7 27 дней назад +2

    What a great conversation!

  • @jdlaurie3393
    @jdlaurie3393 27 дней назад +1

    Thanks for the great video. It would have been nice to hear his take on population Y.

  • @891Henry
    @891Henry 21 день назад

    Excellent video. Have him back again please. Thanks Stefan.

  • @maggiebrinkley4760
    @maggiebrinkley4760 27 дней назад

    Wow! What a brilliant video! Yes, my brain is melting, and I'm going to have to re-watch to understand more, but I think I'm beginning to grasp how ancient dna 'works.' Mr Skov has the rare talent of being able to explain complex ideas in a comprehensible way. And, Stefan, you have the equally rare talent of being able to ask the questions that we are thinking! I hope you enjoyed your beer (though to be brutally honest I don't think much of American beer. A nice East Anglian IPA would be my preference - perhaps it's genetic?????) With love from the UK.

  • @Metal_Malachy
    @Metal_Malachy 23 дня назад

    Took me a few sessions to watch the whole thing through, but I this video was SO FASCINATING. CHEERS!

  • @Hellemokers
    @Hellemokers 27 дней назад +4

    I want this 5 hours

  • @Taylor_in_Southern_Oregon
    @Taylor_in_Southern_Oregon 27 дней назад +3

    Before even watching this, I just want to say thank you for finally getting out another video. I can hardly wait.

  • @annepoitrineau5650
    @annepoitrineau5650 12 дней назад +1

    One thing we must not forget: these populations of the past were tiny in fact. Never more than 100 000 humans, adding all species, across Eurasia before farming began. The territory was huge, bigger than now during glaciations. Neanderthals were living there from 400 000BCE. Therefore they knew how to use the resources on offer, no matter the climate. Also, hunter gatherer populations expand slowly. Much more slowly than farming populations, and when a group gets too big, there is a split, and part of the group goes off on its own.
    Moreover: if Sapiens had been hostile, it would have been easy for Neanderthals to hide from them, or move away, since they knew the terrain. People get a sense of perspective when I tell them that there are 90 000 Khoisans in the Kalahari. The population is stable, and the Kalahari is roughly the same as france+Italy. The Khoisans have all they need.
    In my opinion, we will discover that Neanderthals/Denisovans merged into us or disappeared due to fertility issues/populations falling beyond critical levels and being too inbred (just like today's endangered species)/illness (whether from Sapiens or animals).

  • @ratman6525
    @ratman6525 28 дней назад +8

    Hell yeah !! Never been this early!

  • @cheryldueck318
    @cheryldueck318 18 дней назад

    This was fantastic! I think I came in with slightly more DNA knowledge than you did at the outset of the video, but there are a few times I went back and listened to a section a few times before it clicked! Super interesting!
    Thanks so much for bringing this to us.

  • @maybellejohnson4424
    @maybellejohnson4424 26 дней назад

    This interview was great, thank you! And best of luck in your upcoming research, hopefully we get to see a follow up interview to find out some of your results one day!

  • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897
    @gaslitworldf.melissab2897 26 дней назад

    Believe it. Most of us are struggling, b/c in grade school, you just got the basics and it was still a new science a few decades ago. I'm 60, so I'm older than this as a concentration of study.

  • @TwitchPunk
    @TwitchPunk 27 дней назад

    Thank you for such an enlightening video

  •  26 дней назад

    This was really interesting. It was nice to get a glimpse into how geneticist work.

  • @billypesavento1367
    @billypesavento1367 27 дней назад

    You guys are changing the world.

  • @thefamousmattjackson
    @thefamousmattjackson 27 дней назад

    This was great. Really interesting. Thanks for this one

  • @janiwal75
    @janiwal75 23 дня назад

    Awsom video! Thanks so much. For someone who doesn't know a lot about DNA it was so well explained through the question/answer process. I learned so much! A real eye opener👍

  • @susanpatterson7088
    @susanpatterson7088 27 дней назад +1

    I really enjoyed the genetics talk!

  • @niamhfox9559
    @niamhfox9559 26 дней назад

    That was so informative! I was just glued to the screen the whole time!
    I had to think of the DNA being like a 4 note song, that copying such a long song will change it over the years in order to grasp the concept. I always wondered how genetically diverse Neanderthals were and how much they moved or changed over time.

  • @Kalanchoe_
    @Kalanchoe_ 27 дней назад

    awesome video! what an incredibly fascinating topic

  • @weethree2070
    @weethree2070 27 дней назад +2

    Wow. And I always thought "experimental archaeology" just meant flint-knapping and moving big stones… 😁