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Perhaps the Indus Valley Civilization did descend from Zagrosian farmers?
On the limits of fitting complex models of population history to f-statistics: These results show that at least with regard to the AG analysis, a key historical conclusion of the study (that the predominant genetic component in the Indus Periphery lineage diverged from the Iranian clade prior to the date of the Ganj Dareh Neolithic…
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Open Thread – 04/14/2023 – Brown Pundits
Since Pandits and Kamboj always ask me if it’s true if they’re Iranian, Iran through the ages: civilization’s eternal crossroads and Pre-Persian Iran: from the invention of agriculture to the Aryan onslaught. Part 3 and 4 will land next week. I have a post (right now at 5,500 words) that I’m working on relating to…
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Alex Feinberg: former professional athlete and techie turned trainer
Listen now (50 min) | Leverage your instincts to build a better body and make better choices
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The modern human conquest of earth
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks about the rise of modern humans, from their beginning as just one population among a diverse set of human species, to the dominant and only remaining lineage of hominids in the present. His reflec…
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Cousin marriage in Bangladesh
This piece arguing for the end to cousin marriage in the UK in The Times (driven by Pakistanis) took me to a paper in PLOS One, Genetic and reproductive consequences of consanguineous marriage in Bangladesh: The mean prevalence of CM in our studied population was 6.64%. Gross fertility was higher among CM families, as compared…
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The Green Sahara and Fulani
Echoes from the last Green Sahara: whole genome analysis of Fulani, a key population to unveil the genetic evolutionary history of Africa: Background The Sahelian Fulani are the largest nomadic […]
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Adam Mastroianni: a history of experiments in social psychology
Listen now (57 min) | Is peer review a problem for science?
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Pre-Persian Iran: from the invention of agriculture to the Aryan onslaught
Prehistoric Iranians’ genetic roots and Indian entanglements
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 04/04/2023
April Showers Edition
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Iran through the ages: civilization’s eternal crossroads
Parsing Persian genetics
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Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate 20+ years later
Twenty-one years ago, Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature was published. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Blank Slate firmly established Pinker as one of the major public intellectuals in 21st-century America; it fo…
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David McKay: AI and the end of the world as we know it
Listen now (67 min) | The rise of the machine…tools
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David McKay: AI and the end of the world as we know it
The rise of the machine…tools
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The modern human conquest of earth
Listen now (76 min) | A narrative genetic history of humanity
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David Sloan Wilson: the past and future of multi-level selection theory
Dr. David Sloan Wilson is a Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. Co-founder of the Evolution Institute and Prosocial World, Wilson is the author of Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish B…
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Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib hosts three guests, Sarah Haider of A Special Place in Hell, Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institute and Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept. Razib, Haider, Hamid and Hussain discuss the current state of the …
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Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib hosts three guests, Sarah Haider of A Special Place in Hell, Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institute and Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept. Razib, Haider, Hamid and Hussain discuss the current state of the …
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Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate 20+ years later
Listen now (67 min) | Reflections on the blank slate, the ghost in the machine and the noble savage
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Open Thread, 03/16/2023, Brown Pundits
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Open Thread, 03/16/2023, Brown Pundits