Here's Taleb's longer article about the Roman Britain TV cartoon: https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-genetics/something-is-broken-in-the-

Here's Taleb's longer article about the Roman Britain TV cartoon: https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-genetics/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-ge... And here's an article about the debate/noise: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/dna-romans/535701/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/dna-roma... Beard's point seems to be that ethnic and geographic diversity of some sort did exist and the kind of thing portrayed in the show is not entirely impossible, while Taleb's point seems to be that a family of “black” and “white” people would not be a typical one and that these modern racial categories are different from those of the time. The Atlantic article puts this in context and says why the positions are not inconsistent.