Author: Razib Khan

Christmas Edition

Political scientist and Washington Post op-ed writer Hamid talks about his new book

Wringing every drop of insight from modern samples, awaiting ancient ones

Episode sixty-four of the Khanversation

The future of Indian Americans and their religious beliefs and practices

Ancient DNA closing the book on centuries of speculation and debate

Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #10

Two paleoanthropologists talk about the state of the field

Gratitude edition

A second high-coverage Denisovan genome holds a mirror up to our own lineage

Political pundit and scientist Sean Trende

A saga of human survival gives “indigenous,” “native,” “homeland” new meaning

Khanversation number sixty-three

A statistical geneticist discusses the controversies and advances in his field

Khanversation episode sixty-four

The return of the repressed

Heritage Foundation Groypered

Deep Learning and Human Evolution

Sometimes you fall into things. Indian population genetics is not a major interest of mine that looms large, but I know a fair amount about the topic, and people seem to be looking to me to say something about recent developments. I have admitted that I am close to completing a major article in an…

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