David Reich: The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans

[AxionXIII]

I’ve gotten to the point in my life where I am excited to listen to all of this.but more importantly, understand it. Thanks so much!

[nicholasgreenway]

I really love that this sort of unadulterated, high-level material exists on YouTube, in addition to more mass-appeal popular science content (sometimes by the same presenter). As a non-expert I cannot parse 100% of what Dr. Reich is saying here but I’m grateful to be allowed to make the connections and inferences that I can. Please continue to post material like this.

[stumccabe]

Thank you for uploading this. Fascinating.

[djlafg]

What an amazing lecture, so much info given in a visible form that made its understanding so much more accessible. Thank you very much Professor Reich.

[wohargRadu]

Great video. The discovery of CLV component in Anatolia is quite surprising and will need some more explaining.

[philandrews]

Very cool! It's very fascinating how dna research is opening up a whole new world of details on ancient history and the spread of genetics and languages in Eurasia. It would also be interesting to see how the Bell Beakers might fit into this latest analysis of the spread of steppe related Yamnaya genetics into previously anatolian neolithic farmer and western hunter gatherer dominated populations.

[tedtimmis]

This is really groundbreaking. I’m still grappling with the idea that Yamnaya women displaced indigenous corded ware women while the male lines of corded ware people remained intact.

[zadeh]

Interesting how the south Caucasus hypothesis, in particular, Neolithic Iranian argument for PIE just vanished into thin air. Political pressure gets to best of us.

[HerbertPrestonRichardz]

My takes here are: R1b-L151 has been found in early corded ware from southern Poland, I think that its a relevant data that is not taken into consideration. No doubt female yamnaya migration was key in the formation of CW(many yamnayan mitocondrial haplogroups later can be found in corded and beaker people, U5a1, U4c1, H6, W, to name a few) but yamnaya Y dna was there too, as we also have R1b-L51 from yamnaya (wich is also not mentioned) it was a minor lineage but it was there, minor lineages should not be ignored like that, another example of a similar case could be J2b-L283 wich was very minor in Yamnaya but became the dominant Y-DNA in the yamnaya derived Cetina Culture, wich so far seems to have lacked R1b-Z2103, same was likely the case for R1a in CWC. It is a pattern to be examined, these Yamnaya guys sort of knew their Y dna or their "ancestral male line" as their culture was highly patriarcal at the time and depending on its origin the male centered clans behaved diferently as they had diferent positions in their society, one staying in the steppe other venturing out of it in mostly groups of paternaly related man that if successful produced some insanely big but verifiable Y-DNA founder effects. Lastly it is left unexplained that the CLV cline ancestry in Sredny Stog is very low in Caucasus Neolithic ancestry and is almost fully BP-like, meanwhile the later xtra 25% CLV ancestry in SS that is the final ingredient to form Core Yamnaya is basicaly Remontnoye/Zolotarevka, wich is half Caucasus eneolithic half BP, it is a key point as it lessens the odds of PIE languages being of eneolithic caucasian origins and increases the odd of it being originaly spoken by the half CHG half EHG Berezhnovka-Progress group.

[AntonioTorcoli]

If I understood correctly the 2024 paper refutes the Southern Arc theory, advocated in the 2022 paper by the same authors. It is amazing how science is always honest. David Reich is a top scientist and a captivating speaker.

[someopinion]

17:15 That eastmost rightmost dot, is that in Sanxingdui? That would be extremely interesting.

[claforestrie]

What is the haplogroup of the Neolithic farmers from Anatolia?

[DorchesterMom]

My maternal haplo (h6a1b2) has been found in remains from various Yamna sites. I always wondered how my foremother ended up in the British isles - You always hear about the male lineages, moving westward, replacing the original WHG male lineages. This new information helps me visualize how the Yamna LADIES fared - because we were there too fellas! Looks like we were given in marriage/trade/left behind with the Corded Ware tribes - And we know they ultimately pushed into the British isles themselves.

This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing this presentation! I saw David Reich’s name and clicked on the link so fast, I’ve been anticipating a discussion about the latest paper ❤

[nvartandreassian]

south caucasus is higher, ( the term was created during Russian empire on 18th century), under caucasus mountains, but not so south at the place of Armenian Highlands ... I suppose that scientifics must be more exact in their terminology

[BellBeakerBloke]

Basically the Sredny Stog who were 80% Euro-Siberian hunter gatherer were ancestors of all Indo-Anatolians. It’s impressive he mentions the much more mixed “Levantine” influence as one group but fails to mention the word “Europe” once….

[gregcollins]

This is great content. Only one small complaint. Soft speakers should really speak up or turn the microphone up.

[malachi-]

Like a bunch of living cells put into a big dish for thousands of years... who would have known.

[dorasmith]

It took Dr. Reich a very long time to even mention Corded Ware, and he hardly did the same amoun tof careful work to demonstrate that modern Europeans descend from Yamnaya and not Corded Ware. Nor does he even account for the origins of Corded Ware.

[userXD]

Unfortunately, a lot of facts destroyed or distorted from this region for political purposes

[ciszegebe]

So “Indo-European” is no more a just a pure linguistic frase but again a race like in the good old times when it was called ARYAN. Genetic origin of a language is like the chemical origin of music or the political origin of quantum entanglement. In contrast, the colonial and racist origin of aryan linguistics, is a sentence that make sense. Language and dna has nothing to do with each other.