No mention of the adult lactase expression hypothesis here. Too hot for publication? It was fine ten years ago in _The 10,000 Year Explosion_
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Holy shit apparently they are in practice This chapter is a wild ride in an unexpected direction and the author is being both careful and bold in his editorial about his attempts to ethically collect Native American genetic data Propspic.twitter.com/rMUZsZ9QV0
Also holy shit Apparently Greenberg was right How are the linguists taking this Has anyone sought comment from Lyle Campbellpic.twitter.com/ZhFS1LMvGQ
Conclusion of the chapter is that Native Americans . . . were probably not That's gonna go over like a lead balloon Brave work but geneticists will never get tribal consent from anyone ever againpic.twitter.com/nZbN2fhWgD
On to East Asia. This on Japan is interesting--had expected a larger steppe presence based on some conversations with a Turkish classmate who alleged linguistic and cultural (eg, horse-and-bow samurai) traces to Yayoipic.twitter.com/dvNo9Udst5
Oh my God I was not expecting this. Bold move, let's see how it plays outpic.twitter.com/lT3skgqzjt
popcorn dot gif this is either going to be pablum or crackpic.twitter.com/9YIemlMcCT
Actually no. Wow. He's engaging, shiny and chrome and impeccably polite.pic.twitter.com/cL6ofdJnXq
"Compared to most academics" Bernie Sanders is Strom Thurmond
best fella @razibkhan getting a shout out as a wicked right winger
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He probably knows his audience. I imagine it's humanities professors?pic.twitter.com/eS4PCRX2CO
Ahhhhhhh,, and now he's starting shit. The last section was a carefully-worded cri de coeur to the left to not to let HBD types own the space geneticists are making. Here he's firing right. It reads lazy. :/ "You believe bad things" vs "Here's evidence you're wrong"pic.twitter.com/ABuKIUdhn1
The politics of this are interesting. I think this is the modal preference, but most people who have political views about it see their outgroup as doing their best to undermine it! IIRC this is nearly identical to one of Curtis Yarvin's statements a year or two back.pic.twitter.com/4YMhL6a6Lq
It's probably worth noting he's coming at this not as a leftist ideologue, at least not in the usual sense. Example: this paragraph probably gets him shitcanned in the public sector.pic.twitter.com/Ow35AUAVqi
Back to science! Super looking forward to this. Time to Resolve some Questionspic.twitter.com/4NBjbkQ86s
Ok I'm through. Superb on object-level content, get it for that alone. Also fascinating as a case study in what a world-class researcher is permitted to say today, to whom, and how he manages. Recommend reading and imaging what parts you could openly write, safely. /thread
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