Instead of posting a comment, I’ll just do a ‘core dump’ on a post.
Know from history:
– Hungarian. Genetics indicates that far less than 10% (closer to 1%?) of the ancestry is from “Ugric” people (confounded by later migration of Turks, which bumps up ‘exogenous’)
– Most of the Romance languages. We have ancient Italian DNA. Outside of the Provence the spread of Latinate languages is through culture
– Most speakers of Turkic languages. In Turkey proper, the range of admixture is 10-20% (depending on how you calculate the mix of pastoralists in the 11th century after Manzikurt)
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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.
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