Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

Razib Khan: surveys of the great ancient human DNA Diasporas


Listen Later

This week takes The Unsupervised Learning podcast in a somewhat different direction. In response to a common listener request, Razib takes on his first “one-man-show,” digging into his stores of knowledge of the population genetics of ancient peoples and tribes, delving into the significance of abstrusely labeled clusters like “Ancient North Eurasian” (ANE) over 60 minutes. But as anyone following this substack will anticipate, first a caveat: in these heady days of endless ancient DNA discoveries and attendant revisions to long-standing convention: everything is provisional. Razib notes that his assertions are not written in stone, as new work from researchers like Laurent Excoffier adds fresh nuance and intriguing detail to the broader evolutionary picture every few months.

This podcast takes a geographical approach, surveying Eurasian, African, Oceanian and New World populations over the last 20,000 years since the Last Glacial Maximum. Razib covers not just how populations interrelate and how they emerged, but he also touches on unique aspects of physical appearance, adaptations and natural history.

Reading:  
  • Spanish hunter-gatherer had blue eyes and dark skin

  • Cheddar Man: Mesolithic Britain's blue-eyed boy

  • Population genomics of Mesolithic Scandinavia: Investigating early postglacial migration routes and high-latitude adaptation

  • Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions

  • The Formation of Human Populations in South and Central Asia

  • Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

  • Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

  • Mysterious East Asians vanished during the ice age. This group replaced them

  • Earliest Americans Arrived in Waves, DNA Study Finds

  • Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East

  • Divided by DNA: The uneasy relationship between archaeology and ancient genomics

  • Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers

  • Ancient Admixture in Human History

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Razib Khan's Unsupervised LearningBy Razib Khan

  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8

4.8

196 ratings


More shows like Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

View all
EconTalk by Russ Roberts

EconTalk

4,235 Listeners

Robert Wright's Nonzero by Nonzero

Robert Wright's Nonzero

584 Listeners

The Glenn Show by Glenn Loury

The Glenn Show

2,260 Listeners

Conversations with Tyler by Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Conversations with Tyler

2,395 Listeners

The Good Fight by Yascha Mounk

The Good Fight

895 Listeners

Quillette Podcast by Quillette

Quillette Podcast

806 Listeners

ManifoldOne by Steve Hsu

ManifoldOne

90 Listeners

Blocked and Reported by Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

Blocked and Reported

3,764 Listeners

Dwarkesh Podcast by Dwarkesh Patel

Dwarkesh Podcast

428 Listeners

The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan

The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan

819 Listeners

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers by UnHerd

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

225 Listeners

Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta by Alexandra Kaschuta

Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta

258 Listeners

"Moment of Zen" by Erik Torenberg, Dan Romero, Antonio Garcia Martinez

"Moment of Zen"

91 Listeners

"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg by Erik Torenberg

"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg

60 Listeners

"Econ 102" with Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg by Turpentine

"Econ 102" with Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg

146 Listeners