Persians and Parsis https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=7914 pic.twitter.com/D2dQD6CwMa
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Iran has the highest Nature Index per capita today in the Islamic world (barring Saudi Arabia, but theirs are imported, while Iran suffers massive brain drain).http://www.unz.com/akarlin/noosphere/ …
I think a lot of Persian talent is no longer in Iran though. If we looked at ancestry from names, we might get a different picture. I'm pretty sure we can find us a database of all papers in science with author names, then it's fairly simple matter of inferring ancestry.
