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When Our Simplest Invention Killed 95% Of All Men Alive [22:04]
YouTube ^ | August 3, 2026 | The First Dawn

Posted on 10/08/2026 5:32:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Roughly seven thousand years ago, something erased the majority of men from the human gene pool. Not a plague. Not a famine. Something else entirely, and the evidence is still sitting in your own DNA. 

We dig into the genetic study that first uncovered this bottleneck, the mass graves across Neolithic Europe that back it up, and the invention sitting at the center of it all, one so ordinary you would never suspect it. 
When Our Simplest Invention Killed 95% Of All Men Alive | 22:04 
The First Dawn | 17.8K subscribers | 240,685 views | August 3, 2026
When Our Simplest Invention Killed 95% Of All Men Alive | 22:04 | The First Dawn | 17.8K subscribers | 240,685 views | August 3, 2026

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; godsgravesglyphs; neolithic
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00:00 Intro
00:38 The Genetic Signal
04:47 Farming and Property
06:02 Where the Bodies Are
09:25 Four Sites
14:24 Weapons Without Armor
15:47 Why Only Men
20:23 Outro
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1 posted on 10/08/2026 5:32:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Nearly 2000 years before Oetzi.

2 posted on 10/08/2026 5:33:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

video without text is of little value to most


3 posted on 10/08/2026 5:39:25 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: SunkenCiv

Quiche? Pinterest?


4 posted on 10/08/2026 5:41:01 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: SunkenCiv

Marriage? jk


5 posted on 10/08/2026 5:43:13 PM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: SunkenCiv

Whew ! 17 women for every man !

That’s better than Redondo Beach !


6 posted on 10/08/2026 5:43:40 PM PDT by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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To: crusty old prospector

when men first learned to masturbate.


7 posted on 10/08/2026 5:43:43 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: Mariner

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2018/05/war-clan-structure-explain-odd-biological-event


8 posted on 10/08/2026 5:44:35 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: SunkenCiv

It was the Mother In Law, wasn’t it?


9 posted on 10/08/2026 5:48:30 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SunkenCiv

Where would we be today if it were the childbearing age females who were dying in combat at that rate instead of men.


10 posted on 10/08/2026 5:49:53 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: SunkenCiv

What was the “Invention”?


11 posted on 10/08/2026 5:51:49 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

12 posted on 10/08/2026 5:57:30 PM PDT by al baby (Sarcasm )
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To: Deaf Smith
What was the “Invention”?

It's just clickbait without that detail.

13 posted on 10/08/2026 5:58:31 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Mariner

Who is going to tell us what the loons are saying?


14 posted on 10/08/2026 6:00:25 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: Mariner

Who is going to tell us what the loons are saying?


15 posted on 10/08/2026 6:00:27 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: Mariner

Who is going to tell us what the loons are saying?


16 posted on 10/08/2026 6:00:31 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: Mariner

Who is going to tell us what the loons are saying?


17 posted on 10/08/2026 6:00:35 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: Candor7

18 posted on 10/08/2026 6:01:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

When the fewest beta males ever existed. Now it’s the opposite.


19 posted on 10/08/2026 6:03:03 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Candor7


20 posted on 10/08/2026 6:06:37 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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