Razib Khan’s Content Aggregation Site
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Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Link to review: The wheel of history turns to the gods.
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Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Link to review: The wheel of history turns to the gods.
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Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall
Link to review: Historical Dynamics and contingent conditions of religion
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War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
Cliodynamics, the rise & fall of empires and asabiya
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Egypt vs. Indonesia in attitudes
TNR has a post up, Egypt and Indonesia. In it, the author argues that: At times of unexpected but momentous political change in distant countries, we grasp onto political analogies to help get our bearings. Even if we know they are imperfect, we can’…
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Diminishing returns of ancestry analysis (for me)
Zack has finally started posting results from HAP. To the left you see the results generated at K = 5 from his merged data set with the first 10 HAP members. I am HRP002. Zack is HRP001. Paul G., who is an ethnic Assyrian, is HRP010. Some others have already “outed” themselves, so I could…
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My family’s Neandertal genes, ii
Last week I reported that it turns out that one of my siblings carry a possible Neandertal haplotype on the dystrophin gene. To review, it seems likely that ~3% of the average non-African’s genome is derived from Neandertal populations. But by an…
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A genomic map of human variation, where we’re at
Zack has started exploring the K’s of his merged data set for HAP. A commenter suggests that: As you have begun interpreting the reference results, let me make a friendly warning: you have to keep in mind that most of the reference populations of…
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Harappa Ancestry Project, t-minus one day
Zack is going to post the first batch of results from HAP tomorrow. It looks like he’s going to be using mostly the merged HGDP, HapMap, SVGP, and Behar data set, supplemented by a second set which also merges the Xing et al. sample (the intersec…
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What do the people think?
With all the geopolitical tumult and news I was a bit curious to see what The World Values Survey could tell us about public opinion in Egypt and Tunisia. Unfortunately, Tunisia hasn’t been in any of their surveys, though Egypt has. So I thought …
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Around the Web – January 31st, 2011
The first month of 2011 is almost over…. Exiled Islamist Leader Returns to Tunisia. “…while Ennahdha was branded an Islamic terrorist group by Ben Ali, it is considered moderate by scholars.” I remember talking to a gay friend a…
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“Asian” in all the right places
mtDNA haplogroup G1a2 The pith: In this post I examine the most recent results from 23andMe for my family in the context of familial and regional (Bengal) history. I also use these results to offer up a framework for the ethnognesis of the eastern Ben…
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Friday Fluff – January 28th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Theological incorrectness – when people behave how they shouldn’t….sort of . 2) Weird search query of the week: “khoikhoi woman in porn.” I had a suspicion I knew who entered this search …
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Harappa Ancestry Project, before the first wave
Zack has been posting his data sources, as well as how he filtered and formatted them, all this week. I assume that the first wave of results will be online soon. As of yesterday, this is what he had (I know he got some more today): – Punjab 7 – Bengal…
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Harappa Ancestry Project, before the first wave
Zack has been posting his data sources, as well as how he filtered and formatted them, all this week. I assume that the first wave of results will be online soon. As of yesterday, this is what he had (I know he got some more today): – Punjab 7 – Bengal…
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A ‘leaky’ model
John Farrell pointed me to this Anne Gibbons’ piece, A New View Of the Birth of Homo sapiens. Here’s some interesting passages: The new picture most resembles so-called assimilation models, which got relatively little attention over the yea…
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American history in broad strokes
A comment below inquired about “good books” on American history. Unfortunately I don’t know as much about American history as I do about Roman or Chinese history. But over the years there have been several books which I find to have been very value-add in terms of understanding where we are now. In other words,…
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The scions of Shem?
The media is reporting rather breathlessly a new find out of Arabia which seems to push much further back the presence of anatomically modern humans in this region (more accurately, the archaeology was so sparse that assessments of human habitation see…
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Neandertal (haplotype) in the family!
There is pretty much a 100% probability that I carry Neandertal origin genes, since I’m Eurasian. That being said, I hadn’t looked too closely into the matter in regards to my own genome, because the whole “which SNPs are Neandertal&#…
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After the evolutionary revolution
Image credit: Luna04 My post The paradigm is dead, long live the paradigm! expressed to some extent my befuddlement at the current state of human evolutionary genetics and paleoanthropology. After the review of the paper of possible elevated admixtur…