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Razib Khan on claims that the British imposed the caste system on India: "Sorry, white people, you didn’t invent this one."

I remember when these genomic results first came out, and how surprising it was to learn jatis have been endogamous for millennia.
razib.substack.com/p/the-chara

RT @funkyduffy
@weadhitter Imagine versioning your identity like it's some sort of engineered product with release numbers instead of just *being* and allowing yourself to change (or not change!) as you gain or lose interests/friends/lovers/etc

RT @sashachapin
Pro-natalist reminder: humanity survives because we were dumb enough to keep copulating as plagues swept the earth

It was all face tumors and wailing in the street and we were like 'hell yeah more babies'

It may well be the end of days: make babies

RT @konstructivizm
Shuchang Dong has won the 'Astronomy Photographer of the Year' award with this photo of an annular eclipse last year over Tibet

RT @Rationalist69
@noneirony @p_sfitz "I have tried to use charts and reason to change your views on housing....now I am left with no choice..."

RT @JohnKRoman
Yesterday, the FBI announced the largest year-to-year increase in murders since 1960, and there is almost no media interest--I just looked around, the story is not on the WaPo or WSJ front-page, and is buried deep on NPR and NYT...

RT @LiguresA
Analysis of clothing traces of Stone Age Europeans showed that they dressed in a complex,colorful manner,exactly like Native North Americans.For example,9000-year-old shaman woman of Bad Dürrenberg(Germany).This is the reconstruction of her clothes based on remains found in tomb.

RT @mattygagootz
Are my kids going to be remote-working and taking molly in Afghanistan in 20 years? The Vietnam Test.

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