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  • Open Thread – 10/31/2020 – Brown Pundits

    So I started a Subreddit. You can start your own threads there. Eventually, that might make the “open threads” redundant (they are not scaling well with ~400 comments per week). I’ve posted a few podcasts on the Patreon. One is a new podcast from Richard Hanania, where he takes a skeptical stance toward France in…

  • Open Thread – 10/31/2020 – Brown Pundits

    So I started a Subreddit. You can start your own threads there. Eventually, that might make the “open threads” redundant (they are not scaling well with ~400 comments per week). I’ve posted a few podcasts on the Patreon. One is a new podcast from Richard Hanania, where he takes a skeptical stance toward France in…

  • It’s raining adaptive loci!

    It never ends with these Denisovans. More and more results. Filling the gaps in our knowledge. Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau: For today’s Buddhist monks, Baishiya Karst […]

  • The Evolutionary History of Man’s Best Friend Revealed

    Man and dog share a long history. In much of the world, a history as old as humanity. The latest genetic evidence now tells us that the emergence of the domestic dog lineage occurred soon after the human expansion out of Africa 50,000 years ago, in the depths of

  • The Evolutionary History of Man’s Best Friend Revealed

    Man and dog share a long history. In much of the world, a history as old as humanity. The latest genetic evidence now tells us that the emergence of the domestic dog lineage occurred soon after the human expansion out of Africa 50,000 years ago, in the depths of the last Ice Age. We came.…

  • A Hindu nationalist in the House?

    Slate has published a transparent “hit piece” on Preston Kulkarni, who is likely to win a seat for the Democrats in Houston. I say hit piece because it doesn’t seem deeply reported, but sourced from Pieter Friedrich, who I have mostly seen online as a rather inflammatory activist, not a dispassionate scholar. A reporter in…

  • They killed the daughter of the maryannu!

    Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh) during the 2nd millennium BC: integration of isotopic and genomic evidence: The Middle and Late Bronze Age Near East, a period roughly spanning the […]

  • Week 3, Gene Expression book club

    Readers have been complaining about Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe. The issue is that there’s no “there, there.” The author hasn’t really […]

  • Against the WEIRD!

    Charles Freeman, author of The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason (and in the UK, The Awakening: A History of the Western […]

  • Open Thread – 10/24/2020

    I’ll be a little late on the book club post this week. Busy with other stuff. Fee free to post on whatever below…

  • Comments!

    They say blogs are dead. They say comments are dead. To my surprise, this website has surprised me. In the later years of the Sepia Mutiny weblog the number of comments started dropping off. The theory was that people were commenting more on Facebook (Twitter wasn’t huge then). Google Analytics says that more than 20,000…

  • Open Thread – 10/24/2020 – Brown Pundits

    Going to post some notes on the latest podcast here. I talked to Fred Martin, who is of Haitian origin, but pretty stridently French, and a liberal. We discussed the killing of Samuel Paty, and Islam and Islamism in France. We also mooted the differences in relation to race between the USA and France, and…

  • Ten books to read on the island

    I mentioned offhand earlier today that Jacques Gernet’s A History of Chinese Civilization is one of the top ten books I’d read. I’ve read this book three or four times […]

  • Not all societies are identical

    There is some discussion on “Hindu Twitter” and elsewhere about the French response to the murder of Samuel Paty. In short, France is going “medieval” on the asses of a lot of Muslims, even nonviolent but very conservative organizations. To use a German phrase, the French state is entering into a Kulturkampf against militant Islam.…

  • Tibeto-Burmans, Munda, and Bengalis

    I’m pretty sure I posted this Chaubey lab work as a preprint, but it’s now a published paper. For those who can’t understand the table, it illustrates a big difference between Tibeto-Burmans and Munda. The samples from Bangladesh look to be generic Bangladeshis, the 10% frequency for O2a seems to match the other data I’ve…

  • The Genetic History of the Middle East: into Arabia

    A new massive preprint on the Middle East is out. I’ve edited the first figure to give people a general sense of the broad results and populations sampled. First, you […]

  • Open Thread – 10/18/2020 – Gene Expression

    Taking a break from the book club, I’m finishing up books that I never finished though started. So, The Turks in World History. Recommended. Not so deep as to confuse, […]

  • Week 2, Gene Expression book club

    The second chapter of Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe is short. Much of it is re-warmed evolutionary biology, with a focus on […]

  • Not All Identities Are Created Equal

    In 2020, much of the public discussion of social issues revolves around notions of identity. Ideas about race, reformulations of gender, and considerations of class or religious confession. But it is not often stated that these identity categories are qualitatively different, and these differences have different implications for the real

  • Not All Identities Are Created Equal

    In 2020, much of the public discussion of social issues revolves around notions of identity. Ideas about race, reformulations of gender, and considerations of class or religious confession. But it is not often stated that these identity categories are qualitatively different, and these differences have different implications for the real world. Some reflection on the…

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