"This suggests to me that the most likely location of the population who first spoke an Indo-European language was south of the Caucasus Mountains" Hmmm hmmmmmmmmmmmm if only we had a demonym for such a people
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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
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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
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Oh my God I was not expecting this. Bold move, let's see how it plays outpic.twitter.com/lT3skgqzjt
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popcorn dot gif this is either going to be pablum or crackpic.twitter.com/9YIemlMcCT
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Actually no. Wow. He's engaging, shiny and chrome and impeccably polite.pic.twitter.com/cL6ofdJnXq
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"Compared to most academics" Bernie Sanders is Strom Thurmond best fella
@razibkhan getting a shout out as a wicked right winger lolsigh He probably knows his audience. I imagine it's humanities professors?pic.twitter.com/eS4PCRX2CO
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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
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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
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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
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Back to science! Super looking forward to this. Time to Resolve some Questionspic.twitter.com/4NBjbkQ86s
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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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