Razib Khan’s Content Aggregation Site
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The Indian migration to Southeast Asia
Ancient DNA from Protohistoric Period Cambodia indicates that South Asians admixed with local populations as early as 1st-3rd centuries CE: Indian cultural influence is remarkable in present-day Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), and it may have stimulated early state formation in the region. Various present-day populations in MSEA harbor a low level of South Asian ancestry,…
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Noah Smith on the Sri Lankan crisis
A textbook currency crisis, triggered by a bunch of policy mistakes.
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Open Thread – 07/11/2022 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
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More than 1 year of the steppe
Over at my Substack I’ve spent more than a year writing about the cultural and genetic impact of the Eurasian steppe. I’ve put out a large number of essays, so […]
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Stuart Buck: making 21st-century science better
How do we make science in the 21st century better? Stuart Buck, Executive Director of the Good Science Project has some ideas. More concretely, Buck is part of a broader movement of researchers, activists and philanthropists reimagining how science can…
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A Hun by any other name
On the genetic trail of Europe’s enduring bête noire
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The Toda are different
A new paper on Southwest Indian genetics highlights the Toda sample from Genomes Asia. People in the comments of this weblog have asserted this small southern tribe may have the most “Indus Valley Civilization” ancestry in the subcontinent. This is perhaps an exaggeration, but, looking at the admixture plots the Toda clearly have hardly any…
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Global 25 is good, but a minor issue
ArainGang, has posted a pretty interesting map of various ancestry components in the subcontinent by population. It’s pretty good, especially for the south and west of the subcontinent. But, there is something weird going on in the northeast: a lot of these populations have “Ancestral Indian” (Andamanese) ancestry but hardly anything else East Asian. This…
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Vikings need to be tamed
Our godless society still fears the pagan past
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Vikings need to be tamed
Our godless society still fears the pagan past
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Vikings need to be tamed
Our godless society still fears the pagan past
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 07/07/2022
The Survey Edition
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Vikings need to be tamed
Our godless society still fears the pagan past
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Judge Glock: it’s still morning in America!
Listen now (75 min) | An economic historian makes the case for being positive about the US
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As American as a first library card
some friends’ favorite reads on the American experiment
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Eternal as the Nile
Three millennia of Egyptian genetic continuity
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On being an “upper caste” “Muslim”
So I was talking to a friend, a Guju bania who visits their “family temple” now and then. This person is from a very tight-knight community. We were talking about whether I am “upper caste,” and their point was that most of my ancestors were from the bhadrolok literate elites of Bengal. It seems I’m…
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Claire Lehmann: an Australian at the heart of the heterodox web
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to his friend Claire Lehmann, founder and editor-in-chief of Quillette magazine, and columnist for The Australian. Though Lehmann’s initial public prominence involved her key role in the “intellectua…
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Wolf paleogenomics
Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs: The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and they remained widespread […]
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Dr. Iona Italia: a cosmopolitan liberal in an identitarian age
Listen now (72 min) | The editor of Areo Magazine speaks