{"id":73271,"date":"2012-08-12T20:21:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T04:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17769"},"modified":"2012-08-12T20:21:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T04:21:32","slug":"the-jewish-diaspora-not-an-empire-of-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/12\/the-jewish-diaspora-not-an-empire-of-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish Diaspora: not an empire of the mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"imgcapleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/08\/220px-EmmanuelleChriqui08TIFF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17770\" title=\"220px-EmmanuelleChriqui08TIFF\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/08\/220px-EmmanuelleChriqui08TIFF-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Berber queen?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In light of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/08\/an-exegesis-of-robert-pollack\/\">previous post<\/a> you know that I was going to post on the new paper in <em>PNAS<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2012\/07\/31\/1204840109.abstract\">North African Jewish and non-Jewish populations form distinctive, orthogonal clusters<\/a>. Additionally, the press people at Albert Einstein did reach out to me. That doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;ll blog a paper, but it does mean that I&#8217;ll give it an extra look. If the authors or people associated with the paper care to have their work publicized, and reach out to humble bloggers, then that&#8217;s all good in my book. Also, I suppose over the past two years I&#8217;ve become a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/tag\/jewish-genetics\/\">locus of &#8220;Jewnetics&#8221; commentary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways this is the Golden Age of Jewnetics, though we are approaching the epoch of silver. There has to be diminishing marginal returns at some point, and I think the 2010 papers which I reviewed earlier really established the broad outlines of the scientific genealogy of the Jewish people. But just because the <em>broad <\/em>outlines are established doesn&#8217;t mean that there isn&#8217;t something to say on specific aspects which haven&#8217;t been deeply explored. Some of the commentary on this weblog &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/RvJNqRBIN_A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berber queen?<br \/>\nIn light of the previous post you know that I was going to post on the new paper in PNAS, North African Jewish and non-Jewish populations form distinctive, orthogonal clusters. Additionally, the press people at Albert Einstein did reach &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,82,481,525,33,364,2098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-human-genetics","category-human-genomics","category-jewish-genetics","category-jews","category-north-african-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73314,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73271\/revisions\/73314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}