race/history/evolution notes

"Ethnic" names were (apparently causally) associated with lower earnings among sons of Irish, Italian, German, and Polish immigran...

The U.S. Civil War and emancipation wiped out a substantial fraction of southern wealth. The prevailing view of most economic historians, ...

We next analyzed UK Biobank population structure in conjunction with ancient DNA samples. Modern European populations are known to have desc...

Mega-analysis of 31,396 individuals from 6 countries uncovers strong gene-environment interaction for human fertility Family and twin stud...

Facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) is not associated with pubertal testosterone Several researchers have proposed that facial width-to-heig...

Race Is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue : In an article published today (Feb. 4) in the journal Science, four scholars say racial cat...

Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe ( fre...

Commentary on "Limitations of GCTA as a solution to the missing heritability problem" ( abstract ; pdf ): In a recent publication...

Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons : The purported migrations that have formed the peoples of ...

Press release: First ancient Irish human genomes sequenced . BBC: Ancient DNA sheds light on Irish origins . Guardian: Origins of the I...

Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians (open access): We extend the scope of European palaeogenomics by seq...

The Strength of Selection Against Neanderthal Introgression Ivan Juric, Simon Aeschbacher, Graham Coop doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/03014...

Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe The arrival of farming in Europe around 8,500 years ago necessitated adaptation to ...

Previously, we've seen that upper income Jews in Boston voted much further left than Protestant Bostonians in the middle of the 20th ce...

This data comes from "a large national sample (60,000) of faculty who filled out questionnaires for the Carnegie Commission on Higher...

As he himself eventually confirmed, moldbug's ideology was formed by mashing up a variety of vaguely rightist and libertarian ideas and ...

This conference, aimed at "integrating new evidence for the origin and spread of the Indo-European languages", will take place ne...

This possibly archaic African Y lineage was discovered a few years ago by hobbyists, and a project run and funded by hobbyists to collect a...

Both papers are freely accessible: A global reference for human genetic variation An integrated map of structural variation in 2,504 huma...

I don't necessarily buy positive selection for genes predisposing to male homosexuality in stratified societies via pleiotropic effects ...