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Open Thread – 1/16/2024 – Happy New Year
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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
It wasn’t too cold until recently. I imagine it’s warmer in Austin than the upper midwest.
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Open Thread – 12/15/2023 – Brown Pundits – Brown Pundits
Question – do we have any material culture now from Indo-Aryan graves used for genetic samples? Things like clothing, grave goods, statues etc? I know we have some such sampels for Andronovo, but was curious for Indo-Aryans as well. On that same note, are there any physical reconstructions from remains?
Indo-Aryans in South Asia? The 2018/2019 paper/s got samples from Swat Gandhara grave culture. You can look up info on the material culture if you want to. Although there is a chance that they may not have been Indo-Aryans.
Sweet! I could only see the genetic component. Do you know I I would find this information>
Pakistan Aligrama, Artkotkila, Barikot, Butkara, Godara, Katelai, Leobanr and Udegram- all IA (Iron age) not the H (historic) samples.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F2rKEVtu8nWSm7qFhxPU6UESQNsmA-sl/view
from now on jai sri ram will also be as legit as bharat mata ki jai.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/978794
So this looks like a study that indicates that rising sea levels moved an Orang Asli like group to move back into South Asia. Would this indicate that AASI’s relationship to the Andamanese (Closer to Burma than India) isn’t due to splitting off from common ancestry, but actual paleolithic SE Asian admixture?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-04510-0
Further details
Inferring that stuff from modern samples instead of incorporating ancient DNA is messy. Need to wait for AASI DNA from South Asia to check that hypothesis.
How accurate is G25 for caste/regional distances?