November 2019
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Westernmost India
Razib Khan cites Isidorus of Charax’s Parthian Stations, which calls the Helmand region White India, to argue that Buddhism carried Indian cultural influence into the Iranian world’s eastern fringe, and…
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The Burmese frontier of Bengal
Razib Khan reads Thant Myint-U’s account of Burmese memories of Bengal alongside mtDNA and Y data, finding about 10 per cent East Asian lineages in Bangladesh. He argues a Tibeto-Burman…
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Browncast episode 74: Maratha Bro Amey Talks Immigration, Ayodhya, etc
BrownCast episode 74: Razib talks to Amey, the site’s self-described resident Maratha philosopher, about US immigration policy, the Ayodhya dispute and whatever else comes up. The conversation is open-ended, with…
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Some admixture coefficients for South Asian Genotype Project members
Razib Khan runs qpAdm on South Asian Genotype Project members, giving each individual’s Indus Periphery, steppe and Andamanese hunter-gatherer shares in a table, and warns that individuals vary within populations.
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 24 November 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
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A model runs through it
Razib Khan says 23andMe and Ancestry placed his family in Comilla, Bangladesh. He argues the label ‘Bengali’ hides East Asian ancestry visible in a PCA, then reports qpAdm estimates of…
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Book Review: The Battle for Pakistan by Shuja Nawaz
A review of Shuja Nawaz’s The Battle for Pakistan, praised for balanced treatment of civil-military imbalance and foreign policy since 9/11. The reviewer discloses a personal debt to Nawaz from…
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DoubleQuoting Trees, 2001 – 2019, Greta 2019 – 1898
Guest writer Charles Cameron pairs images and quotations, from Sebastião Salgado’s twenty million planted trees and mother-tree science to Tolkien’s Ents and a 1898 Yukon photograph said to resemble Greta…
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Browncast Episode 73: Conversation with Sadanand Dhume
BrownCast episode 73: the hosts speak with Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute, who also writes for the Wall Street Journal, about Konkani Brahmins, Hindutva, the Ram Mandir, the…
