Category: Razib Khan
Was the nation-state inevitable?
I listened to the above on a podcast. To be frank it was a bit ho-hum. To non-brown listeners some of the stuff was surprising, but I had heard most of it elsewhere before, and Varsha Venkatasubramanian is not particularly heterodox, so her “UC Berkeley” affiliation immediately indicated a lot of her answers to the questions posed.
But I want to talk about one aspect of the discussion, and that is Venkatasubramanian’s understanding of the role that British colonialism played in the emergence of Pakistan and India.
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Humanity on the edge of the worldWhen the glaciers retreated 10,000 years ago, the far north of Eurasia was finally opened up for human habitation. In Europe, Scandinavia was settled first by our own species. Here they encountered an eerie world of cold dark winters, icy mountains, and rich seas. |
Scandinavian Genetic HistoryAs Razib wraps up the second season of The Insight, he talks to Torsten Gunther about what ancient DNA has told us about Scandinavian prehistory. Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss the beginning of season three! (show notes). Also available on |
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Pigmentation SNPs by population
I used the clustering and frequency feature in plink to get minor allele frequencies in 1000 Genomes + Sintashta. Since I did the Sintashta separately earlier you may have to flip the frequency. Use ccommon sen








