https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10408

40% of english ancestry comes from anglo-saxons

Ilhan Omar's district is almost 70% American

Rene Guenon basically did that

@NateDahl76 which countries?

Cal State Fullerton

San Juan Capistrano with @TylerHess and @ExternalPepsi

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/12/07/489401.full.pdf+html

lot of stuff to digest in this one - african genetic history has a lot unanswered questions

Hello @everyone - first discussion on Rules for Radicals will be starting at 7:00 pm EST

Called the switchboard, and they just transferred me to the comments line, which was closed.

@Mick Medieval Russia 980-1584

Russian courtship

if it's 600+ pages and the 1 star reviews on amazon aren't about formatting errors or freudianism it's usually at least half decent @Mick

I'm enjoying it, but it is pretty academic

I'm only 7% into it so far - but a lot of it is past the arrival of ryurik

he was a viking of finnish background that united a lot of slavs and founded Rus'

his descendants would rule russia until the death of Ivan IV "The Terrible"

russians are a mixture of a lot of different peoples, just like americans

slavs are the main group, but they have a lot of finnic and ugrian ancestry, with a sprinkling of tatar and german

in a lot of ways he was

yeah

no problem

after mongols destroyed kiev and a lot of principalities, base of russian civilization shifted north of the forest line to places where nomadic hordes were less capable of attacking

moscow was a very loyal servant of the mongols, and gained a lot in power and wealth relatively during that time

by the 15th century, the mongols were destroying themselves through fighting between descendants of genghis khan and new warlords

so moscow was able to retake a lot of territory that had been lost

a lot of the various principalities had their own identities at that time, and regularly rebelled against moscow

Ivan IV is pretty famous for sacking novgorod, a major city that had its own identity, and he played an even larger role in his grandfather Ivan III in promoting russian identity in the territories he controlled

as time went on, the various principalities gradually lost their identities and became russians

however certain places like galicia and volhynia remained outside of russian control until 1945, and never adopted a russian identity, and instead kept their old identities as part of the old principalities. These identities became the modern ukrainian identity

so Ivan IV was part of a broader trend of centralization and russification that continued until 1917, but was exceptionally good at it

but he was still part of the old system in a lot of ways

hope that makes sense

I think I was searching for medieval russian history on Amazon

it was $38 for kindle edition iirc

will do

@Myndrian check out some of the papers posted in <#393251982258995201>

inclusive fitness and reciprocal altruism evolution are a lot more plausible than group selection

for Turchin, he is talking about state evolution, not genetic selection for traits

his argument is that states on "metaethnic frontiers" are able to reduce rights and privileges of groups in their state and mobilize more resources, enabling them to dominate less efficient states

I just don't get how there is selection at the group level genetically. Sure socially, culturally, and politically, but not genetically

creatures where group selection occurs are usually eusocial, like ants or bees

hamilton's rule comes into play here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_fitness#Hamilton's_rule

not sure if everyone views their own race as most trustworthy - a lot of whites here in CA greatly prefer our mestizo, asian and subcon neighbors to conservative whites

in group racial preference is socially and culturally conditioned to a large extent

in past, religion was the largest divide, and in many parts of the world it still is

as for the ashkenazim - they are hardly unique. karelians are still clearly distinct from other finns today, but they little conception of nationhood and are being absorbed into russian and finnish populations rapidly

just doesn't seem likely that racial in group preference is a genetic trait - although in group preference in general might be

neither whites nor azhkenazim are particularly unique. Chinese of the Tang dynasty invited in hordes of iranians and turks, and provided them with plenty of opportunities which they immediately abused. Same for the Hindus with the Moslems in the subcontinent, iranians with their turkic and arab minorities, congo with its tutsis, etc. not all that different from white foolishness.

as for the ashkenazim, check out the armenians of the various caliphates, the sogdians of the tang era, the greeks of the middle ottoman period, italians of the levant during crusader times, etc

gujarati merchants and tamil brahmins are other good examples

very little outbreeding from those groups

not yet - I've been meaning to

Does it have the math showing how genes promoting group selection spread through a population?

Been a while since I read a population genetics book, but have vague memory the numbers for group selection didn’t work out

he's saying that we weren't calculating for polygenetic traits back when their theory was first proposed, and that current computer models show that their theory is plausible

that isn't true by the way - the infinitesimal model has been around for ages

as for bacteria, they are almost clones of each other

he is saying that critics were criticizing their theory by saying 1 trait = 1 gene, and that we know now that many genes affect a trait

but in the infinitesimal model it is assumed that an infinite number of alleles affect a trait

Interesting guy: US Department of State, Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Shah

yeah - he's a gujarati bania - the transnational merchant caste

Portuguese like Albuquerque and Almeida were well aware the subversion threat that his types posed

from: https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Rockefeller-President-Cleared/243738

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN "Conquerors" by Crowley is a pretty fun read on Portuguese adventures in the Indian Ocean

this medieval russia book is pretty good so far

Yes

people seriously underestimate Kamala Harris - people in the subcontinent such as Vatal Nagaraj have been trying to warn the world of her caste for decades

truly incredible how many Indian communists leaders come from her mother's very small caste

she is a tamil brahmin - definitely not a dalit

I was warning jazzhands about gujarati bania jati a few months ago - was hoping he'd share the news to his listeners

that is the transnational merchant caste based in India's northwest that is very similar to the role jews played in eastern europe for a while

jati just means subcaste

yes they are - one member of her jati was leader of the maoists in kerala (southwest india) and another was the leader of Communist Party of India for a while

no

nimrata is a punjabi sikh

Does anyone know a good book on Reindeer Herding?

@Clayton_H_ATX read "Udems" as "Udmurts" for a second