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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…
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O2a and Munda
Razib Khan quotes a paper on Y-chromosome haplogroup O2a-M95, which finds at least three founders linked to the spread of Austroasiatic languages into South Asia within the last five thousand…
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Browncast 72: Conversation with Salman Rashid
BrownCast episode 72: the hosts speak with Salman Rashid, an ex-army man turned travel writer with ten books, about Partition, Pakistan, history, Alexander the Great and whatever else comes up.…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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