REICH MAKES HITLER'S PEACEFUL REMOVAL OF JEWS FROM EUROPE SOUND ALMOST LIKE MODERN HUMANS WIPING THE SLATE CLEAN

 This is Reich's Whig enlightenment  interpretation of paleogenetic prehistory.

The Neanderthals just laid down their more primitive weapons without a fight, and agreed to be peacably eaten by modern humans.  They recognized progress when they saw it.

"....The spread was so fast that it is hard to imagine that archaic humans who had already been resident there for close to two million years, and who we know were also there when modern humans expanded based on the evidence of interbreeding with Denisovans (and Neanderthals, he discussed elsewhere), put up much resistance....In East Asia as in West Eurasia, the expansion of modern humans out of Africa and the Near east had an effect akin to the erasing of a blackboard, creating a blank slate for the new people..." DR:

Friday, November 29, 2019

DAVID REICH NEANDERTHALS DENISOVANS OTHER ARCHAIC HUMANS WENT EXTINCT FOR FUN

IT IS REALLY AN ENLIGHTENMENT LOCKEAN REASONED ACCOUNT OF PREHISTORY. IT IS ALMOST AS IF THE GOOD BUT OBSOLETE ARCHAIC HUMANS AGREED WITH THE MODERN HUMANS TO GO. 

ALMOST A SOCIAL CONTRACT KIND OF ARCHAIC THING. ALL OF THEM GOOD HOMINIDS.

Sunday, October 13, 2019

MODERN HUMANS REICH'S ACCOUNT LIKE A LOCKE TABULA RASA OUT OF AFRICA

'The spread was so fast that it is hard to believe that archaic humans put up any resistance at all', really.

East Asia, West Eurasia, same almost instantaneous story he tells.

It somehow does not fit his male dominator mixture paradigm, so he can dismiss it as something he need not comment on adversely.

It is almost as if they were talked into their graves, reasoned into their graves by more enlightened humans than they, went extinct voluntarily without a struggle, acknowledged they were obsolete. 

Hardly even any evidence of his favorite ancient human process, mixing. Almost no mixing here, between archaic humans, who had been there for almost 2 million years,  with modern humans. Just an abrupt quiet early and welcome grave, to hear Reich recount it.  

He makes it sound like a brief and peaceful liberal transition to modernity.  David Reich, p. 191. An effect akin to erasing a blackboard, creating a blank slate for the new people......

I will tell you a different story, a darker story, anon.