race/history/evolution notes

TGGP drops a link to an article (republished by the ever-daring LewRockwell.com) by a HuffingtonPost contributor who fancies himself a purv...

For those who are interested, according to someone on twitter: DIYgenomics: @23andMe $99 discount returns; code B84YAG to be live 10 AM Wed...

PDF slides of some presentations from Family Tree DNA's "6th International Conference on Genetic Genealogy", which took place ...

Teeth and leg bones from Iron Age people are showing a 21st century scientific-research team that there might be an evolutionary silver lini...

A new subclade of mtDNA haplogroup C1 found in icelanders: Evidence of pre-columbian contact? Although most mtDNA lineages observed in cont...

A reader forwarded me this message, posted to a mailing list by a third party: One of my project members wrote to one of the organisers of ...

When Genetics and Genealogies Tell Different Stories-Maternal Lineages in Gaspesia Data from uniparentally inherited genetic systems were u...

Jombart T, Devillard S, Balloux F. Discriminant analysis of principal components: a new method for the analysis of genetically structured po...

Ray N, Currat M, Foll M, Excoffier L. SPLATCHE2: a spatially-explicit simulation framework for complex demography, genetic admixture and rec...

Does Masculinity Matter? The Contribution of Masculine Face Shape to Male Attractiveness in Humans ( PLoS ONE ): The proposal [. . .] that...

A commenter links to a 2007 neuropolitics.org post (" Who Are The Caucasians Attracted To? Politics, Religion, and Physical Attraction ...

Mangan on Transparency International's World Corruption Index A One-Way Human Mission to Mars : There are many reasons why a human co...

Diversity among African Pygmies ( PLoS One ): Thirty three-dimensional (3D) landmarks registered with Microscribe in four cranial samples ...

A Der Spiegel article makes a case for the role of mass migration in shaping the European gene pool, while failing to mention the evidence ...

Bio-IT World road to $1,000 genome issue (via Genomes Unzipped ) Distinct clones of Yersinia pestis Caused the Black Death (via Jean M )...

It appears someone took the liberty of uploading David Anthony's book on Indo-European origins to scribd . Read and discuss if you wish.

A post by Notus Wind brought this paper to my attention: Although mutation provides the fuel for phenotypic evolution, it also imposes a ...

Berlin Researchers Crack the Ptolemy Code All this offers up rather exciting prospects, since it makes half the cities in Germany suddenly ...

Paper mentioned by John Hawks : "Reconstructed stature of 1.84 m falls at about 99% of Medieval heights [. . .] Thus, tall stature inde...

From Preferred to Actual Mate Characteristics: The Case of Human Body Shape The way individuals pair to produce reproductive units is a maj...