Comments on: Daily Data Dump – Monday

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:44:22 +0000

What about Pashtuns (Alexander’s favorite ethnic group)

since they’re in the HGDP, we know there’s nothing special about that out of what we’d expect. they have legends about descent from jews too.

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By: DK

DK — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:14:38 +0000

The map’s legend: “Slavic” and “Indo-European” as separate categories. WTF???

By: onur

onur — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:55:21 +0000

What about Pashtuns (Alexander’s favorite ethnic group)?

By: EcoPhysioMichelle

EcoPhysioMichelle — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:54:53 +0000

But it has two horns! Argh!

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:34:31 +0000

happens.

By: John Hawks

John Hawks — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:32:45 +0000

Thank you for quoting that so that I would notice the egregious typo!

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:32:14 +0000

laban, been falsified. no connection.

By: Laban

Laban — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:24:31 +0000

Razib – slightly off topic but related to Central Asian genetics – has anyone ever actually garnered evidence linking the population of modern Afghanistan to Alexander the Great’s army ? I remember seven or eight years back the UK Spectator sponsored an expedition to Nuristan to collect samples, but I never heard of any results.