Razib Khan’s Content Aggregation Site
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Brown Growl
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The southwestern groups in the Indian subcontinent are enriched for “Middle Eastern” ancestry
Genetic affinities and adaptation of the South West coast populations of India: Evolutionary event has not only transformed the genetic structure of human populations but also associated with social and cultural transformation. South Asian populations were formed as a result of such evolutionary events of migration and admixture of genetically and culturally distinct groups. Most…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits – 3/18/2022
A comment on the earlier open thread: Interested to know what Razib and Omar sahab think of Holi, any experiences Razib? I don’t have any experience and did not know it was Holi. Thanks for telling me! I was going to visit India for business in 2020, but then COVID-19 happened, so I have never…
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Jacob L. Shapiro: geopolitical pasts, present and futures
Listen now (77 min) | An age of instability and creativity
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Zack Stentz: Andromeda to X-Men
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Zack Stentz, a screenwriter and producer in Hollywood, and a former journalist. His credits include 2011 films X-Men: First Class and Thor, as well as the television shows Andromeda, Terminator: T…
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Depigmentation in Northern Europe
Direct detection of natural selection in Bronze Age Britain: We developed a novel method for efficiently estimating time-varying selection coefficients from genome-wide ancient DNA data. In simulations, our method accurately […]
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Red hair is about as recessive as St. Patrick was Irish
The real truth of Ireland’s historical genetics
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Why my Substack posts are better and worse than ancestry calculators
Of all my Substack posts, Ashkenazi Jewish genetics: a match made in the Mediterranean has been the most popular of the paid posts. It prompted this response from a reader: […]
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Russia invades Ukraine and ends globalization?
Listen now | How the current troubles are going to impact us all
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Samo Burja: Bismarck Analysis and geopolitical uncertainty
Listen now (92 min) | Deep-dives into the edge of geopolitical analysis
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Sarah Haider: from Ex-Muslim to gender atheist
On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast Razib talks to his friend Sarah Haider, founder of Ex-Muslims of North America and the writer behind a new Substack, Hold That Thought. Born in Pakistan, and raised in Texas in a Shia Muslim family, …
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Tibetans as the compound of two populations
A new paper looks at some ancient Tibetan genomes: Present-day Tibetans have adapted both genetically and culturally to the high altitude environment of the Tibetan Plateau, but fundamental questions about […]
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Friendship in a time of evil
The shooting of this family in Ukraine is all over the front pages. Many Americans bemoan the humanitarian disaster. Russian restaurants are being boycotted in the US (many of the staff and owners are Ukrainian!). Below is a photo of a starving Yemeni child: A bit under 100,000 children have starved in Yemen in the…
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Seeing the world through other eyes
As most of you know I am the child of Bangladeshi immigrants to the US. I don’t make much of my “identity” because it rests lightly on me, and is […]
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Getting a sense of the Russian soul
Looking into Russian genetics and history (not through Putin’s eyes)
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Liberals are wordcels par excellence
Matt Yglesias asks why more selective colleges are more left-wing. There are several reasons, but I think one of them is that liberals just tend to have somewhat higher verbal, […]
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Zack Stentz: Andromeda to X-Men
Listen now (53 min) | A Hollywood writer’s life
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Muhammad Sohail Raza: A Pakistani genomicist in Beijing
Today on the Unsupervised Learning podcast the focus is on genetics, culture and geopolitics with Muhammad Sohail Raza, a Pakistani genomicist living and working in Beijing, China, whose research focuses on bioinformatic methods and high-altitude adapt…
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 03/03/2022
Spring is around the corner edition (OK, it’s here in Texas)
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Life (science) comes at you fast, part 3
This is what demography looks like