Gene pools and all things anthropolgy

I ended up having a very interesting discussion with friends a few days ago. It centered around people who have a strong interest and knowledge of all things about anthropology. The Gentleman explained how he was able to draw parallels between present day inhabitants of Bangalore, Tanzania, Kutch, both in India and Pakistan and very quickly decipher the antecedents. And religion had nothing to do with it.

So turns out that anthropology by itself, while it does not necessarily have use cases, beyond research and discovery, it leads to a person developing a curious and creative mindset.

In an era where we are being overtaken by the concept of artificial intelligence, and a new LLM dropping on us every minute, it is easy to get carried away and undermine the importance of studying genetics, gene pools, migration and everything about anthropology. I am sure AI can play a significant role in expanding this research.

And at the risk of sounding tad philosophical, safe to say that this discussion lead me down another very interesting rabbit hole of appreciating the reasons for differences that may exist amongst tribes of human beings. We often hear that if one is from a certain community or background, one must be ''like this'' or have a label attributed to how they behave or are expected to behave. I am most certain that we can owe a large part of these attributes to our gene pool and the history of our ancestors.

Experts have written voluminous books on this subject, and so many more have completed their PhD's. It's a straight and narrow approach to reasoning why we are all a certain way. Regardless, it seems to be very interesting and definitely a topic that I will study at length at some point.