Comments on: Amerindians of Brazil more numerous than you think

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:55:24 +0000

yeah, i think about the same as puerto rico. at least the amerindian component. i think puerto ricans are a bit more black than white brazilians, but less black than brazilians as a whole.

By: Steve Sailer

Steve Sailer — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:31:10 +0000

About the same as Puerto Rico, right? I call it the Jennifer Lopez Effect.

By: Walter Sobchak

Walter Sobchak — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:15:57 +0000

“Additionally, while 700,000 Brazilians identify as Amerindian, 2.4 million Americans do (though I believe that a much larger proportion of American Native Americans are of mixed ancestry than Brazilian Aboriginals). ”

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By: Zachary Latif

Zachary Latif — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:36:19 +0000

Interesting post and certainly raises the valid question that after a couple of generations “mixture” just gets blended into the population.

Sort of leads the way for the high immigration Western societies; it may just be that in a couple of generations there will be evidence of mixture but ethnic cohesiveness won’t disintegrate.

At any rate its always comforting to know when human populations didn’t die out but in one way or another persisted in a new permutation.

It does raise the question whether “aesthetic preferences” had an effect on why some populations look differently to their “genetic mix” (Saudi Arabs with their ~30% Sub-Saharan African population and Jewish pops, which resemble their host population but are genetically interlinked).