Razib Khan’s Content Aggregation Site
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The decade of “Culture Wars” to come
There’s a new think tank, The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, that recently started up. It caught my attention because it’s headed by my friend Richard Hanania, […]
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2020 Holiday reading and beyond
Over at Substack someone asked if L. L. Cavalli-Sforza’s works from the 1990’s are worth reading. I had to say, sadly, that probably not. It’s 2020, and they’re just too […]
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Call for content!
Open Thread
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Araingang: Pakistani American nationalist and internet troll
Another BP Podcast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher (and a variety of other platforms). Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a regular schedule is to subscribe to one of the links above! You can also support the podcast as a patron. The primary benefit now is that you get…
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Republicans buy sneakers too!
In 1990 Michael Jordan infamously quipped “Republicans buy sneakers too!” The issue here is that Jordan was a Democrat, and people wanted him to weigh in on North Carolina politics, […]
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COVID-19 at the beginning of the 2020 “Holiday Season”
Like most people I initially underestimated coronavirus. Unlike most people I have a blog where I can see what I actually thought. My first mention of coronavirus is on January […]
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COVID-19 at the beginning of the 2020 “Holiday Season”
Like most people I initially underestimated coronavirus. Unlike most people I have a blog where I can see what I actually thought. My first mention of coronavirus is on January […]
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Open Thread – 11/28/2020 – Brown Pundits
I’m on the road now, so this is prescheduled. Hope Americans had a good Thanksgiving. For those who are asking, I’m keeping the Patreon because I allocate it to Brown Pundits related costs (hosting podcasts, recording software, etc.). I wi…
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Up with Substack! Down with Substack!
The Substack has been up for a week, and it’s been fun so far. Lots of people have ideas about what to do, and how to do, “paid newsletters.” I’ve […]
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What I’m thankful to know about genetics and history in 2020
A generation after History and Geography of Human Genes
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Eric Cline on the end of the Bronze Age
Listen now (55 min) | Eric Cline is the author of 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. I’ve long been a fan of the Bronze Age, and Cline’s work. Though much of this research uses the methods of archaeology, the material remains, there is also a great deal of textual evidence due to the ubiquity…
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Ancient DNA And The Five Ancestral Lineages of Modern Dogs
Today Razib talks to Anders Bergstrom on the results of a new paper in Science that uses ancient DNA to discover the ancestral lineages of modern dogs. There are some major surprises! https://razib.substack.com/ https://unsupervisedlearning.libsyn.com/…
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Anders Bergstrom: The five lineages of Holocene dogs
On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, I talk to Anders Bergstrom about the new paper in Science, Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs, on which he is the first author.
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And we’re off!
The state of Unsupervised Learning
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People from the Indian subcontinent are higher risk for heart disease, all things equal. So?
People of Indian subcontinental origin. South Asians. Are at higher risk for heart-related disease than other world populations. Probably every year one of the big newspapers has a feature focusing […]
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Whole genomes of ancient farmers and hunter-gatherers
A new preprint uses about a dozen ancient genomes to create a model of the origins of Europeans and European farmers more precisely. The big deal here is that they […]
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Ancient Germany gotras
The Bell Beakers are an interesting “culture.” A Bronze Age European people defined by their beakers, their origins seem to be amongst non-Indo-Europeans in Southwest Europe. But, at some point, the motifs spread to Indo-Europeans in Central Europe, an offshoot of the Corded Ware people who had admixed further with Neolithic farmers. These Indo-Europeans are…
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Open Thread – 11/22/2020 – Gene Expression
New Virgina Postrel book, The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World. I did an AMA and set a record for responses on the subreddit for AMAs. probably won’t […]
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Unsupervised Learning Update
Just a quick update. I’ve put up a few podcasts at the substack for subscribers. I’ll be “front-loading” the podcasts before getting into a ~1 week groove. I will ungate […]
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How much “steppe” ancestry is there in South Asia? (Indian subcontinent)
Since this question always comes up at some point, I decided to do a rough back-of-the-envelope calculation of the % steppe across the Indian subcontinent. The way I did it was by taking Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India, and estimating the average percentage from the caste breakdowns (e.g., UP is 20% “upper caste” and 20% “Dalit”…