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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?…

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

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).

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…

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