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Who We Are and How We Got Here
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Reich's tour through ancient-DNA evidence that today's populations are the result of repeated waves of migration, mixture, and replacement. Balaji uses it in The Network State to argue 'history is a boneyard'—every present arrangement was a contingent outcome of past upheaval.
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“history is a boneyard”
Cited by name in The Network State, chapter on Fragmentation, Frontier, and the Fourth Turning, to argue that current geopolitical arrangements are transient.
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Twitter mention.
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“This is a monument, not just a book.”
Taleb's own Amazon customer review of the book, linked on the page.
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Recommended in the cited tweet.
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Macrohistory reading using ancient DNA to rewrite the deep story of human migration and population mixing.
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5 SOURCEs- thenetworkstate.com · Fragmentation Frontier Fourth Turning Future Is Our Past reading list
- twitter.com tweet
- amazon.com book page
- twitter.com tweet
- Balaji's Network School Curriculum reading list
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