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Who We Are and How We Got Here
Science / History
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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4 People-
Balaji Srinivasan
“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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Naval Ravikant
Twitter mention.
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Nassim Taleb
“This is a monument, not just a book. And the beginning of a new cultural program.”
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Michael Mauboussin
“One of my favorite science books in 2018”