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Open Thread – 7/19/2024 – Brown Pundits
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Razib Khan
Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary. Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin. View all posts by Razib Khan
Any news on upcoming ancient DNA from South Asia?
Tell me about it please.
I have no new update. All I know is that the nuclear DNA from the Sri Lankan samples is allegedly going to be released some time this year.
what is this group’s opinion on ‘out of india’ theory? is it now similar to the ‘flat earth’theory?
It’s a joke of a theory for the most part.
Why hasn’t there been a lot of research on the genetic history of South Asia like the same way that was done for Europe?
For Europe, we know:
* a lot about the indigenous WHG who once lived there, and how much modern Europeans have of their genes. We know this for Indians as well, however, we don’t know the granular details. For example: How much Neanderthal did the AASI have? What was their genetic distance to the indigenous WHG of Europe?
* When the EEF entered Europe, we know the date – 8,300 years ago. We also know which modern-day population is most similar to them (Sardinians). Do we know precisely to the century when Zagros Farmers entered South Asia? Do we know which modern population is most similar to them? But has there been any research on whether or not there was a population replacement in India due to the Zagros Farmers who arrived around 6000 BC? Keep in mind that the EEF replaced 90% of the WHG of Europe, and I’ve never heard about the Zagros Farmers replacing the AASI.
* When IE arrived in Western Europe, we know the timelines accurately, like we do for India as well. We also know how much IE ancestry people in Europe have. We have this data for Indians as well. But has there been any research on whether or not there was a population replacement in India due to the IE who arrived around 2000 BC?
Hi Razib, Just noticed that I’m blocked on “X” not sure why? Could you please unblock? Handle is sdave4.
I’m hoping someone will post about what just happened in Bangladesh. Is it for better or worse that Hasina ran away? Why was it the quota system that provided the spark? I know she has a reputation as an authoritarian who got the economy moving…