Ella Al-Shamahi

And I'm not mixed race, but I'm mixed heritage.

So I'm a British Arab, right?

Let me tell you, that was confusing growing up at times, right?

At times I was like, it's a bit weird.

I'm like, what would it be like to not just be mixed heritage, don't be mixed race, but mixed species?

Like, what would that have been like?

And what would...

the mother have felt like how would she have felt would she have been sitting there hoping that the child would look more homo sapiens than neanderthal because you know she doesn't want them to get ostracized she doesn't want them to get wow like pregnant like like that mom is sitting there pregnant like thinking about what her baby whether her baby's gonna have a brow ridge or a chin or something seriously

Yeah, so we were the new kid on the block.

And for example, when we entered into Neanderthal territory, Neanderthal territory being kind of Europe and Northern Asia, we would not have had immunities to local diseases.

So when we interbreed with those people, it's effectively like a cheat.

So suddenly we end up with immunities to things that would have taken us ourselves tens if not hundreds of thousands of years to evolve for.

There are some really, really good examples, actually.

And the best one is the Tibetan example.

Are you familiar with this one?

So Tibetans live at obviously very high altitude.

And the genetic mechanism by which they are able to exist at high altitude is very different from the genetic mechanism that exists in other populations who exist at high altitude.

And

The mutation is actually one that they inherited off Denisovans.

I would say