David Reich

And everybody accepts that these people all have in place the cognitive, behavioral, intellectual ingredients that are necessary for the farming revolution and building state societies.

Because when the descendants of these people get distributed to West Africa, to East Africa,

to the Americas, to Europe, to South Asia, to East Asia, to New Guinea, and so on, their descendants all do this independently or semi-independently or completely independently or demonstrably completely independently in all these different parts of the world.

The cognitive resources for doing this must have all been in place, but it's a very long fuse.

It delays for 40,000 years, for 60,000 years in all these different places after the common ancestral population splits up.

and then ignites into agriculture and all these other things after that point.

It's kind of a crazy claim.

And then you could argue about whether the actual fuse is 300,000 years from when Neanderthals separate and from when different lineages of extant modern humans separate, and that's also plausible.

So it's kind of a crazy sort of set of things that we're being asked to believe.

Yeah.

I think we would see their archaeology and the extraordinary developments in the Americas, which are entirely Stone Age.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, we should go for a trip to Teotihuacan in Mexico.

It's so impressive.

When I went there when I was 20, it's totally as impressive as ancient Egypt.

It's huge.

It's massive.

It's without metal.

Right.

Take any person who has an old world superiority and take them to these places, and they will not have it anymore.