davisYC

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   by davisYC 5y ago

   graham was on my committee and i know him personally even before grad school (this is razib). from the acknowledgments his 2013 paper https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou... "Thanks to
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   by davisYC 5y ago

   yeah. no idea why it's even called 'davisYC' aside from the fact i lived in davis then -razib
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   by davisYC 5y ago

   the rule of thumb for mammals is Ne is 30% of census size. i think this is probably an overestimate tbh (assumes poisson distribution of offspring).
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   by davisYC 5y ago

   you can infer sizes from genetic diversity ('effective pop') for the out of africa group i've seen sizes from 100 to 10,000. i used 1,000 to 10,000 as a likely moderate number, and the range also points to the census size bei
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   by davisYC 5y ago

   i talk about introgression in this post https://razib.substack.com/p/here-be-humans the piece was not exhaustive and meant to be an intro