Geneticist explains ancient DNA

Geneticist explains ancient DNA

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Geneticist explains ancient DNA
Big thanks to KiwiCo for sponsoring this video! Check out https://www.kiwico.com/stefan and use code STEFAN for 50% off your first crate of a monthly club. 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 Huge thanks to my generous patrons https://www.patreon.com/stefanmilo Watch my videos Ad free only on Nebula https://go.nebula.tv/stefanmilo