Amerindians – Razib Khan

January 2, 2012 by Razib Khan 0

Amerindians, Anthroplogy, Charles C. Mann, Columbian Exchange, Culture, Great Dying

Our symbionts are death!

Several readers have expressed skepticism of the high mortality numbers Charles C. Mann reports in his two books in relation to the Columbian Exchange. In case you are not aware, the thesis that Mann outlines is that the primary necessary condition whereby Europeans managed to eliminate indigenous populations from much of the New World was […]

September 28, 2010 by Razib Khan 0

Amerindians, Evolution, Genetics, Human Evolution, Human Evolutionary Genomics, Human Genetics, Pigmentation, Select Post, Skin Color

To gain pallor is easier than losing it

John Hawks illustrates what can be gained at the intersection of old data and analysis and new knowledge, Quote: Boyd on New World pigmentation clines:
I’m using some statistics out of William Boyd’s 1956 printing of Genetics and the Races of Man[1]. It gives a good accounting of blood group data known more than fifty years […]

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