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Geneticist Laurits Skov sits down to discuss all things ancient dna and his next project looking for as yet unknown ancient groups that interbred with our paleolithic ancestors.
0:00 Introduction
3:36 What is DNA
10:25 reassembling ancient dna
15:50 dna is just counting
23:26 building evolutionary trees
31:50 molecular clock
35:27 finding "new" "species"
47:02 how far back can we go?
50:10 the challenge of Africa
51:11 defining humanity
57:13 speciation of neans and us
59:00 timing of neanderthal admixture
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