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Katılım Şubat 2026
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@Tom_Rowsell Tibetans inherited EPAS1 gene variant from ancient Denisovans that enables them to thrive at high altitudes.
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Tom Rowsell@Tom_Rowsell·
Yes all human populations are evolving at much faster rates than previously realised. Tibetans have special adaptations for altitude acquired in the last 5000 years. Europeans have undergone unique selection pressures for intelligence and absence of psychological disorders over the last 10k years. The idea that all humans finished evolving 300k years ago and that racial differences amount only to skin colour is a ridiculous myth we are leaving behind.
fOx@fOx1257067

There’s a group of people called the Bajau… and they can dive hundreds of feet underwater with no oxygen tank. Not for sport, for survival. They spend so much time in the ocean that their bodies have actually adapted over generations. Scientists found they even have larger spleens, helping them stay underwater longer than most humans ever could. I understand training your body… but this feels like something else entirely. Do you think humans are still evolving right now?

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Smooth@smooth_mode·
@yajnadevam @dwarkesh_sp He meant mixing stopped after the caste system. Not saying mixing never happened you dvmbass.
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yajnadevam@yajnadevam·
@dwarkesh_sp Don't fall for his dumbassery. Caste endogamy started in 600 CE, by then several millennia of mixing had already taken place. And continued to take place after. Many castes are only a few hundred years old.
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Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp·
One of the coolest stories I heard from David Reich about the interaction between genetics and human culture: The caste system was powerful enough to essentially 'freeze' Indian genetics for thousands of years, almost completely stopping the process of genetic mixture.
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Indian Tintin@IndianTintin_·
Periodic reminder that Aryan pastoralist migration to India was not an invasion. Unlike much of what was happening in that era, there is no archeological evidence of invasion. Plus 'aryan' genes are at 5% in south India at 15% in North India, with only 20% of subcons descending from them. The alleged eurasian invaders did not invade and were very nice to the Zagrosians(who run India's economy even now) and to AASIs(who run Indian politics).
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp

David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread. "It wasn't peaceful, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't nice. Some of our archaeologist co-authors were just really distressed."

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Indian Tintin@IndianTintin_·
@Sassan256424653 @lolwutnopewtf That's not what I'm saying here. I was not referring to autosomal dna in that comment. You lack comprehension. I'm saying only 1 in 5 subcons has a steppe paternal line.
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Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp·
About 5000 years ago, horse nomads from the steppes conquered Europe. Still today, almost every European language descends from the one they spoke, and as much as 90% of European DNA comes from them. What did this conquest actually look like on the ground?
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Aliyy@Khanaliyy·
@indianwaffen The Pakistani side looks like what they are Indian descent Dalits ..
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Usg@SniffingNigga·
@indianwaffen @DebanganMajumd5 Brahmins are 12% of UP and rajputs are 7-8% of UP SCs make up 20% of uttar pradesh, did you pull the mostly SC statistic out of your ass?
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Tom Rowsell@Tom_Rowsell·
Don’t let the Yamnaya eclipse their more successful younger relative, the Corded Ware. About 95% of all Indo-European language speakers on Earth speak a Corded Ware rather than direct Yamnaya derived language
Tom Rowsell@Tom_Rowsell

@elonmusk That’s right, and the Corded Ware who took Yamnaya women and eventually replaced Yamnaya, are the real winners. Their legacy is most clearly seen in Northern Europe where people are still about half corded ware

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Gamer_X@GamerEQ7·
Look how he brushes aside his CLV ancestors, ones that had more CHG-Tutkaul than the modern Europeans who are EEF rich.
Tom Rowsell@Tom_Rowsell

@anton75960 @elonmusk Maybe they do, but Yamnaya were not the first PIE, rather their ancestors such as Sredny Stog were

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Ancestral Whispers@Sulkalmakh·
Facial reconstruction of a 4,000-year-old Aryan girl from Samara This young woman (about 14-15 years old), from a collective burial at the Utyovka VI burial ground (kurgan 2, burial 6, Neftegorsky District, Samara Region), belonged to the Potapovka-Sintashta cultural block of the early Late Bronze Age. The Potapovka culture was a syncretism of the Abashevo and Poltavka cultures and was closely related to the Sintashta culture. Potapovka burial practices are highly diverse. Central graves are large (4.5–10 m³) and are surrounded by smaller peripheral burials. They feature wooden coverings, stepped walls, and internal pits or grooves. Some graves, such as Utyovka VI, contained complex wooden structures with horse sacrifices and dismantled chariots placed inside. Bodies were usually laid on the left side or on the back, slightly flexed, with bent arms. Grave goods at Utyovka VI are abundant and varied: numerous metal tools and weapons (knives, daggers, spearheads), ornaments (bracelets, pendants, beads), and stone tools for sharpening. Some items show Near Eastern connections. Rare silver and gold ornaments were also found. Burials often included full quivers with flint arrowheads (up to 16 per grave). Arrows were about 50 cm long, and bows up to 1 m, with a range of about 300 m. Clothing was decorated with beads made of metal, faience, and stone. A distinctive feature is the presence of antler cheekpieces (psalia), linked to horse gear and sometimes decorated, with parallels across the Eurasian steppe. Bone artifacts (arrowheads, beads, combs, discs) are also common and diverse (Vasiliev I.B., Kuznetsov P.F., Turetski M.A., 2000).
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@Sulkalmakh Seems like Corded Ware got long chin skulls from Neolithic farmers.
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Ancestral Whispers@Sulkalmakh·
Facial reconstruction of a 7,000-year-old Neolithic farmer from Mašovice, Czech Republic The individual belonged to the Linear Pottery culture (LBK). The Linear Pottery people were an Early Neolithic farming population of Europe, genetically associated primarily with the Anatolian Barcın_N cluster, with little additional WHG ancestry. She was aged 15-17. The forehead was high and arched; the superciliary ridges were indistinct, with the glabella indicated. The nose was high, and the orbits were medium-sized. Cribra orbitalia was present in the right orbit; the left orbit was damaged. The mandible was short and high, with straight gonia and an absence of tuberosities. The teeth were healthy, without caries; the M3, consistent with age, had not yet erupted. The cranial occiput was angular, with the occipital bone shifted toward the cranial base. Above the occipital bone, an os incae completum and torus occipitalis were present (height 40.8 mm, width 58.5 mm). Anthropometric characteristics included hyperbrachycrany, hypsicrany, tapeinocrany, and a dolichostenomandibular mandible. The postcranial skeleton was medium-sized; the long bones showed unfused epiphyses, and body height could not be determined. The vertebral column exhibited a congenital defect, spina bifida at S1 of the sacrum. The tibiae displayed Harris lines. (Marta Dočkalová & Zdeněk Čižmář, 2008)
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