Archive - Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

More than kin, less than kind: Jews and Palestinians as Canaanite cousins

The cold facts recorded in Jewish and Palestinian genetics today and historically

Dec 28, 2023 •

Facing Facts, even fraught ones: the quest for proto-Indo-Europeans in 2023

How genetics illuminates the rise of Eurasian steppe pastoralism

Sep 23, 2023 •

You can’t take it with you: straight talk about epigenetics and intergenerational trauma

The true story of a powerful molecular process and how pseudoscience co-opted it

Dec 19, 2022 •

We are what we speak: Indo-European phylogenetic and linguistic trees concur

2024’s biggest ancient DNA findings flesh out Proto-Indo-European trunk, branch and roots

Jan 18

Setting the record straight: open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy

Response to Scientific American's "The Complicated Legacy..."

Jan 19, 2022 •

When civilization control-alt-deletes: prehistoric Europe’s false dawn and long reboot

Reflecting on Europe’s lost 5,000-year-old first draft

Jan 30 •

Ashkenazi Jewish genetics: a match made in the Mediterranean

How and when did the Ashkenazim come to be?

Sep 19, 2021 •

Little Steppe earthquakes: upheavals both demographic and scholarly

Silent all these years, ancient Yamnaya DNA finally speaks in groundbreaking preprint on the origins of Indo-Europeans

Apr 27, 2024 •

Our explosive past: on cataclysms and demographics

The continuing quest to pinpoint what propelled modern humans to every corner of the earth

Jul 6, 2023 •

A language family of one, a land beyond conquest

What a Basque genetic plot twist tells us about prehistoric Europe

Nov 3, 2024 •

We are all Zoroastrians: how Persian empires of the mind touched all humanity

Iran at the center of the Axial Age

May 1, 2023 •

Africa’s exception to every rule: Ethiopian genetics, sovereignty and religion

Pulling back the curtain on one of Africa’s most enduringly unique nations

Oct 19, 2024 •

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