By: Yolvas Tiger
I am a Uyghur. I am pleasantly surprised to find out that Uyghurs are an admixture of West and East Eurasians. I was just wondering how you came to this conclusion. I would really appreciate your...
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It seems like there are a lot of population genetics studies on Ashkenazi Jews (no surprise perhaps, since there are so many Ashkhenazi Jews doing the studying), but I just wanted to ask Razib: what...
View ArticleBy: Razib Khan
yolvas http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2009/09/yes-uyghurs-are-a-new-hybrid-population/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2008/03/uyghurs-are-hybrids/
View ArticleBy: Razib Khan
omar, no other groups in such detail. the etruscan genetics, and reich et al.’s study of indians, and the neandertal paper jump out at me.
View ArticleBy: Y ddraig werdd
The Jewish genome is one of the most, if not the most, studied genomes. A lot of studies have even reached the mainstream press. But still we get things like the German banker (Thilo Sarrazin ) accused...
View ArticleBy: Leah
Thanks for a fascinating series on this topic. I think the racial issue is complex, because while Jews may have been a race at some point, after two thousands years of scattering across the world,...
View ArticleBy: nebbish
Y ddraig werdd, I don’t disagree with your point that there is a genetic component to Jewishness, but it’s a bit of a stretch to consider the Jews a race in the sense of the continental scale...
View ArticleBy: Y ddraig werdd
I don’t thing they are a race either and the German banker didn’t say anything like that. He just said that they have distinctive genes in common, just as the Basques. This is all that he said about...
View ArticleBy: onur
There are three genetic bodies among Caucasoid Jews (today all Jews except Sub-Saharan and South Asian Jews), each of which is genetically separated from each other: There is an uninterrupted genetic...
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Iterating science, supercharged
Science is about “updating” with new information. But people are attached to their propositions, and shifts in paradigms can take a very long time, often dependent more on human lifespans than the...
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The crowds knows better than you?
Justin Wolfers & Betsy Stevenson have a piece up in Bloomberg, Crowds Are This Election’s Real Winners. In The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver has a chapter on Wolfers’ belief that prediction...
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Back to crunching personal genomic data
Many months ago I told some of my friends that I’d run analyses of their 23andMe data, and report it back to them. A year ago I made the same promise to some of my readers. But life got in the way, and...
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Open Thread, 11-22-2012
If you aren’t too stuffed, ask! I plan to get my simultaneous review of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t and Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error...
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Prop 37 vs. Obama (by county)
Following up my request a reader crunched the numbers (here is his data table) to show the association between supporting supporting Proposition 37 and voting for Barack Obama by county in California:...
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Going short and going long in terms of blog traffic
Arnold Kling took a break from blogging, but is coming back. But under an explicit set of personal guidelines. About This Blog: I decided to go with my own blog, rather than return to EconLog, because...
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Are you “Driftless”?
GeoCurrents on the political anomaly of the “Driftless” zone of the upper Mississippi (via GLPiggy). The anomaly has to do with the fact that this area is very white, very rural, and not in the orbit...
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