David Reich
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Why Caste Formed In India and how the heck it could have been maintained! – A Structural Model
Dr Rajorshi Datta argues that strict caste endogamy in India came from structural predisposition rather than luck, using a model of subcontinents as ‘containers’ and upstream geographic and ecological variables.…
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Please read Who We Are and How We Got Here
Urges readers to read David Reich’s Who We Are and How We Got Here, which answers most big questions about ancient DNA to a first approximation, and points to free…
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Browncast Episode 66, ancient India and DNA with Vagheesh Narasimhan
A Brown Pundits podcast episode interviewing Vagheesh Narasimhan, lead author of the 2019 ancient DNA papers on South and Central Asia, about ancient India, with links to the papers, related…
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The hammer of the All-Father
Responding to a New York Times Magazine piece on David Reich’s ancient DNA research, the author says its theme is the clash between oral traditions and genetic history, as in…
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Genetical observations on caste
Citing David Reich’s book, Razib Khan says most Indian jatis have been genetically endogamous for about 2,000 years and varna groups differ in steppe ancestry, which he thinks undermines the…
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South Asians and “communalism”
Razib Khan, citing David Reich, argues that South Asia, unlike China, is a collection of many genetic groups with strong structure persisting within regions, so that Brahmins in Tamil Nadu…
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The Indian chapter of Who We Are and How We Got Here
Razib Khan previews the India chapter of David Reich’s book: Ancestral North Indians as a roughly 50/50 steppe and Iranian-farmer mix, Ancestral South Indians with about a quarter Iranian-farmer ancestry,…
