Prof. Pierre Zalloua

So you have to think and you have to put in perspective, you know, that, you know, it's not always a linear approach.

It's very...

you know, complex, interactive approach, and you have to come, you know, come to the idea that it's not gonna be an easy answer.

It's not gonna be a simple linear answer.

That's right.

I mean, you know, part of, if we look at Mesopotamia, right, and if you look at Iran,

I mean, if you go south, right?

I mean, that's where you are.

You have Yemen and you have Arabia, right?

I mean, this interaction, it's a continuum.

We don't know if actually people moved from Arabia into Iran or from Iran into Arabia.

And I think we're seeing both.

We're seeing this interaction, ancient until today.

And when we talk ancient, we're talking 7,000 years.

Yes.

So when you do DNA analysis on modern people who live in Arabia or in any region,

There's something you have to really understand is that culture actually makes an impact on how our DNA is.

In other words, so what you choose to do in your life, where you migrate, where you move, who you marry, makes your DNA different.

So if you migrate into an area where nobody lived before as a small group and you grow,

your DNA is going to look very different than the initial group because actually, you know, you're actually breeding within a very small group.