Historical Population Genetics – Page 4

September 18, 2011 by Razib Khan 0

Agriculture, Anthroplogy, Genetics, Historical Population Genetics, History, Human Genetics, Population genetics

The words of the father

Over at A Replicated Typo they are talking about a short paper in Science, Mother Tongue and Y Chromosomes. In it Peter Forster and Colin Renfrew observe that “A correlation is emerging that suggests language change in an already-populated region may require a minimum proportion of immigrant males, as reflected in Y-chromosome DNA types.” But […]

August 24, 2011 by Razib Khan 0

Historical Population Genetics, Human Genetics, Population genetics

The geography of genes tells us only so much about history

L. L. Cavalli-Sforza’s The History and Geography of Human Genes is a book I reference a great deal. Cavalli-Sforza is the godfather of the field of historical population genetics, the phylogeography of humankind. Though his work was on classical…

June 23, 2011 by Razib Khan 0

Anglo-Saxons, Anthroplogy, Barbarian Invasions, barbarians, British Genetics, Britons, Celtic Genetics, Celts, English Genetics, Folk Wandering, Genetics, Germanization, Historical Population Genetics, History, Magyars, Post-Roman, Saxons, Turks

Celts to Anglo-Saxons, in light of updated assumptions

Over the past week there have been three posts which I’ve put up which are related. Two of them have a straightforward relation, Britons, English, Germans, and collective action and Britons, English, and Dutch. But the third might not seem relate…

December 30, 2010 by Razib Khan 0

Anatolia, Anatolian Turks, Anthroplogy, Archaeogenetics, Armenians, Dodecad, Genetics, Genomics, Greeks, Historical Population Genetics, Human Genetics, Human Genomics, Origins of Greeks, Origins of Turks, Population genetics, Turks

Are Turks acculturated Armenians?

To the left you see a zoom in of a PCA which Dienekes produced for a post, Structure in West Asian Indo-European groups. The focus of the post is the peculiar genetic relationship of Kurds, an Iranian-speaking people, with Iranians proper, as well as Armenians (Indo-European) and Turks (not Indo-European). As you can see in […]

December 20, 2010 by Razib Khan 0

Anthroplogy, Archaeogenetics, Dagestani, Dienekes, Dodecad, Genetics, Genomics, Historical Population Genetics, History, India, India Genetics, Indo-Aryan, Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Mitanni

Some of the Indo-Europeans found?

School girls in Hunza, Pakistan A few days ago I observed that pseudonymous blogger Dienekes Pontikos seemed intent on throwing as much data and interpretation into the public domain via his Dodecad Ancestry Project as possible. What are the long term implications of this? I know that Dienekes has been cited in the academic literature, […]

September 28, 2010 by Razib Khan 0

Genetics, Genomics, Gypsies, Historical Population Genetics, Roma

On the varieties of Roma

Dienekes has a pointer to a new paper on Gypsy genetics which surveys Y lineage variation among three Roma groups from Serbia in the context of Europe-wide Gypsy genetic variance, as well as their potential host (European) and source (Indian) populations. Since I recently posted on the topic, and Dienekes didn’t post some of the […]

September 17, 2010 by Razib Khan 0

Anthroplogy, Archaeogenetics, Central Asia, Eurasia, Genetics, Genomics, Historical Population Genetics, History, Select Post, Turks

Of Iran, Turan, and Turks

There’s a new paper out in The European Journal of Human Genetics which is of great interest because it surveys the genetic and linguistic affinities of two dozen ethno-linguistic groups from the three Central Asian nations of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. This is what the Greeks referred to as Transoxiana, and the Persians as […]