What David Reich thinks about education

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Geneticist at Harvard Medical School, whose laboratory studies human history and biological change through ancient DNA.

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1. 8 May 2026

   Our readingThe selection signal on the genetics of schooling is not a European artefact: the same variants predict years of school in China, a population disconnected from Europe for the whole period.

   EuropeChinaevolutionary biology

   Their wordsSo we just could not see a way this could happen by chance and once we saw that we really felt quite convinced that this was a real signal and that really somehow there has been natural selection to increase the genetic changes that today manifest themselves as more years of school at predicting more years of schooling.

   ↗David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farmingyoutube.com 10th of 26 in this recording