At some point, no rush, I would love to read what you have to say about the eastern hill tribes of the subcontinent and their relation to the Australian indigenous genomes. I know of the denisovan contribution, but I recall somebody saying there were three waves of immigration before the Europeans, and that the most closely related Eurasian ethnicity was the hill tribes.
are you talking about the munda or the tibeto-burman? the tldr is that there are deep but very ancient connections between indigenous s/se asian populations and australians. but the connections are like 45K years old not very recent...
A very long time ago I heard somebody say that Australian indigenous people were closely related to Indian original populations. Obviously this was rubbish, or maybe something thought by anthropologists at the time.
Thanks for this. Another book by Walter Scheidel I'd recommend is his recent Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity. As for podcast guests, I think polymath Steve Hsu would be great to have on, to discuss the work of his company Genomic Prediction. Just watched both of your interviews on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast!
Razib, how much time do you spend reading boos per day if you don’t mind me asking? Would love to hear you address your reading and writing routine/habits on a podcast or post. Thanks.
not much right now between startup substack and family/friend obligations :( i do read books when i have to interview someone, but otherwise i don't read books on most days now. i'm going to try and make some more time. i just have read a lot of books in the past and have good retention: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/18982209-razib-khan
At some point, no rush, I would love to read what you have to say about the eastern hill tribes of the subcontinent and their relation to the Australian indigenous genomes. I know of the denisovan contribution, but I recall somebody saying there were three waves of immigration before the Europeans, and that the most closely related Eurasian ethnicity was the hill tribes.
are you talking about the munda or the tibeto-burman? the tldr is that there are deep but very ancient connections between indigenous s/se asian populations and australians. but the connections are like 45K years old not very recent...
A very long time ago I heard somebody say that Australian indigenous people were closely related to Indian original populations. Obviously this was rubbish, or maybe something thought by anthropologists at the time.
Thanks for that
there was a crappy 2011 paper that had crap genetics that showed that in pnas tbf
Thanks for this. Another book by Walter Scheidel I'd recommend is his recent Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity. As for podcast guests, I think polymath Steve Hsu would be great to have on, to discuss the work of his company Genomic Prediction. Just watched both of your interviews on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast!
Razib, how much time do you spend reading boos per day if you don’t mind me asking? Would love to hear you address your reading and writing routine/habits on a podcast or post. Thanks.
not much right now between startup substack and family/friend obligations :( i do read books when i have to interview someone, but otherwise i don't read books on most days now. i'm going to try and make some more time. i just have read a lot of books in the past and have good retention: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/18982209-razib-khan