David Reich

And this would be a way that it would have the same origin.

And sort of, so there's a cultural shared thread, this shared toolkit.

There's a mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome thread, which is, and then there is a,

a timing sort of shared thread, which is they both form by mixture.

Yes, which is not inconceivable, but like it's a little bit like believing that farming independently developed in multiple parts of the world.

It did.

Yeah.

So as I said, this is probably wrong.

I'm trying to tell you that like we don't really know the world we live in.

Yeah.

And like, you know, like this is not obviously wrong.

In fact, to me, this is much more plausible.

Yeah.

than the model we currently write down.

It's probably wrong, but it's just much more plausible.

It explains many more things.

It's no more complicated.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, like, I think that, you know, the model that we've put together collectively about the relationships between archaic and modern humans is sort of accreted over time.

There was this, you know, idea that modern humans are distinct and that Neanderthals and Denisovans are like sisters of each other.