How the Irish became white
There is more than some truth to the country’s folklore
How the Irish became white
There is more than some truth to the country’s folklore
How the Irish became white
There is more than some truth to the country’s folklore
How the Irish became white
There is more than some truth to the country’s folklore
The European Neolithic, in fits and starts
On this week’s episode of The Insight I discussed the field of cultural evolution with Richard McElreath. The author of Mathematical Models of Social Evolution, he was in a good place to explain why the field is relatively formal. This is in cont…
When do people forget where they come form?
When it comes to the arrival of Indo-Aryans to South Asia a major question Indians always post is “if they are invaders why don’t they mention that in their mythology?” My standard rejoinder is straightforward: we have plenty of paleogenetic evidence that many populations are intruders, but their mythology doesn’t indicate that. If the Indian […]
When conquered pre-Greece took captive her rude Hellene conqueror
When I was a child in the 1980s I was captivated by Michael Wood’s documentary In Search of the Trojan War (he also wrote a book with the same name). I had read a fair amount of Greek mythology, prose translations of the Iliad, as well as ancient history. The contrast between the Classical Greeks, […]
When conquered pre-Greece took captive her rude Hellene conqueror
When I was a child in the 1980s I was captivated by Michael Wood’s documentary In Search of the Trojan War (he also wrote a book with the same name). I had read a fair amount of Greek mythology, prose translations of the Iliad, as well as ancient history. The contrast between the Classical Greeks, […]
Why only one migrant per generation keeps divergence at bay
The best thing about population genetics is that because it’s a way of thinking and modeling the world it can be quite versatile. If Thinking Like An Economist is a way to analyze the world rationally, thinking like a population geneticist allows you to have the big picture on the past, present, and future, of […]