Razib Khan’s Content Aggregation Site
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Jason Richwine: an immigration restrictionist speaks
Last month Razib talked to Alex Nowrestah of the Cato Institute about the state of migration and policy in the US in 2022. An enthusiast for immigration, Nowrestah expressed some chagrin that the issue has fallen off the American public’s radar, at le…
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Ananyo Bhattacharya: The Life of John von Neumann
Listen now (86 min) | An alien among the Martians
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Open Thread – 05/20/2022 – Brown Pundits
‘We are going to die’: Food shortages add to Sri Lanka’s woes.
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Sir Walter F. Bodmer: from R.A. Fisher to genomics
Three of R.A. Fisher’s Ph.D. students remain active today, C. R Rao at age 101 and A. W. F. Edwards, and W. F. Bodmer, both 86. Bodmer was not only a student of Fisher, the cofounder of both population genetics and modern statistics, he was also mento…
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Cities are where people go to flourish, and then die
Stable population structure in Europe since the Iron Age, despite high mobility: Ancient DNA research in the past decade has revealed that European population structure changed dramatically in the prehistoric […]
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Stuart Ritchie: bad science, good science and behavior genetics
Listen now (71 min) | From the replication crisis to defending Kathryn Paige Harden’s honor
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Ashkenazi Jewis ethnogenesis in light of the Erfurt medieval DNA
Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century: We report genome-wide data for 33 Ashkenazi Jews (AJ), dated to the 14th century, […]
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War – part 2: the making and unmaking of man
When the engine of human progress has nothing left to give (part 2)
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Nick Patterson responds to Feldman and Riskin’s NYRB piece
Nick Patterson has responded on his Substack to the NYRB piece Why Biology is not Destiny, which itself is an attack on Kathryn Paige Harden’s book The Genetic Lottery. Patterson […]
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War: the making and unmaking of man
The origin story of violent human competition (part 1)
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Jason Richwine: an immigration restrictionist speaks
Listen now (61 min) | America and its borders
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Francis Young: Lithuanian paganism during the Reformation
The official conversion of the nation of Lithuania to Christianity was in 1387. This means officially Lithuanians have been Christian for 635 years, and did not adopt the religion until more than 1,000 years after Constantine the Great accepted Christi…
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Open Thread – 05/08/2022 – Gene Expression
Happy Mother’s Day! Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s ouvre is appropriate, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, The Woman That Never Evolved and Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How […]
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Truth, even if we fail
There is an internet/social media controversy about the new book, The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe. The book itself is fine. I have a copy though I […]
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Eurasia, the Stone Age and revenge of the Danes!
In the last week, I put up a big two-part series of posts on Substack, The wolf at history’s door and Casting out the wolf in our midst, about the […]
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 05/05/2022
A fine day in May
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Sir Walter F. Bodmer: from R.A. Fisher to genomics
Listen now (67 min) | A career in human genetics
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Rand Simberg: Elon Musk’s Starship and making spaceflight great again
Rand Simberg is the author of 2014’s Safe Is Not An Option: Overcoming The Futile Obsession With Getting Everyone Back Alive That Is Killing Our Expansion Into Space, and a space business consultant, as well as a longtime blogger and commentator. Today…
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Casting out the wolf in our midst
How shepherd and wolf remade Eurasia in their image (part 2)
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When Surya left Olga of the Birch Forest
In the recent film The Northman the protagonist, Amleth, has a romantic relationship with a woman, “Olga of the Birch Forest.” Amleth was a Viking who raided Kievan Rus, and […]