{"id":74935,"date":"2012-11-17T22:10:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T06:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=19068"},"modified":"2012-11-17T22:10:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T06:10:54","slug":"the-archaeologist-james-fallows-and-neandertals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/17\/the-archaeologist-james-fallows-and-neandertals\/","title":{"rendered":"The archaeologist, James Fallows, and Neandertals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/10\/dont-trust-an-archaeologist-about-genetics-dont-trust-a-geneticist-about-archaeology\/\">Don&#8217;t trust an archaeologist about genetics, don\u2019t trust a geneticist about archaeology<\/a>, in response to James Fallows at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/10\/at-5-neanderthal-you-are-an-outlier\/263475\/\">At 5% Neanderthal, You Are an Outlier<\/a>. Fallows has now put up a follow up, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/11\/the-neanderthal-defense-committee-swings-into-action\/265260\/\">The Neanderthal Defense Committee Swings Into Action<\/a>, where he links to my response post. This prompted the original archaeologist in question to reach out to me via email. I am posting the letter, with their permission, below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hello!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m dropping an email because I followed a link from Fallows to find my email to him highlighted negatively on your blog. I&#8217;ve emailed a few times with Mr. Fallows on various topics and had no idea he was going to post that email &#8211; he didn&#8217;t ask until after it was already up and so, yes you&#8217;re right it was a casual dashed off email and confused two different articles (both of which incidentally I have read so please no more comments on what I may or may not have done). Mea Culpa. And you&#8217;re right, I&#8217;m not a geneticist &#8211; I&#8217;m not even a lab scientist. However, I know a heck of a lot about archaeology and I work closely with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago I posted Don&#8217;t trust an archaeologist about genetics, don\u2019t trust a geneticist about archaeology, in response to James Fallows at At 5% Neanderthal, You Are an Outlier. Fallows has now put up a follow up, The Neanderthal Defense Com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,106,4,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthroplogy","category-archaeology","category-genetics","category-neandertals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74935","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=74935"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75035,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74935\/revisions\/75035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}