The Genetic History of the Jews

In this conversation, the geneticist and writer Razib Khan talks to the pundit Jonah Goldberg about the advances in genetics over the past two decades, the interactions between Homo sapiens and other similar species, and how natural selection is shaping humans today. Of particular interest is the middle segment, where the two discuss what genetic research can tell us about Jews, and about the origins of Ashkenazi Jews in particular. (Khan also wrote about the subject here, but a subscription is required to read the entire post.)