"Thanks to Razib Khan, Sharon Browning, and Don Conrad for several useful discussions"
you can nitpick the piece but this is from an attack piece on me:
"MANY PROMINENT geneticists familiar with Khan’s work do take him seriously. “I don’t agree with everything that Razib writes, but I think that he does write about population genetics very clearly,” said Graham Coop, a population genetic"
so yes, put your faith in graham :-) you know his work so little you weren't aware i was going to easily pivot in this direction
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 being larger
we can assume that conditional on the size of OoA the other groups were way larger (10x or more). otoh, the main thing i did not explore is that i am now believing that africans themselves especially agriculturalists are 'compounds' of various bottlenecked groups (why west africans are closer to eurasians than they are to khoisan)
from the acknowledgments his 2013 paper https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
"Thanks to Razib Khan, Sharon Browning, and Don Conrad for several useful discussions"
you can nitpick the piece but this is from an attack piece on me:
"MANY PROMINENT geneticists familiar with Khan’s work do take him seriously. “I don’t agree with everything that Razib writes, but I think that he does write about population genetics very clearly,” said Graham Coop, a population genetic"
so yes, put your faith in graham :-) you know his work so little you weren't aware i was going to easily pivot in this direction