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I recently started reading that book have been constructing a drinking game based on it. I'd definitely recommend the book so far, but wouldn't necessarily recommend this drinking game:

* Every time a new process is described as being a factor of x times faster/cheaper/better than its predecessor, take log(x) sips of your drink

* Take a sip of your drink for every unique 3-Population Test or a 4-Population test that is described (where uniqueness is defined as the set of populations going into the test).

* Take a shot every time the difference between Population X's DNA and East Asian DNA is used as a unit of measure. Take an additional shot for the quantity if it's more than one, e.g. "The difference between Denisovan and European Hunter Gatherer DNA is twice as large as the difference between Denisovan and modern East Asian DNA." would result in two shots.

* Take a shot every time certain events are described as happening in sequence, but the years also have overlapping error bars




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