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Ethnic Names and Occupational Success in the Last Era of Mass Migration

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"Ethnic" names were (apparently causally) associated with lower earnings among sons of Irish, Italian, German, and Polish immigran...
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The Impact of the Civil War on Southern Wealth Holders

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

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We next analyzed UK Biobank population structure in conjunction with ancient DNA samples. Modern European populations are known to have desc...
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Gene-environment interaction for human fertility

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Mega-analysis of 31,396 individuals from 6 countries uncovers strong gene-environment interaction for human fertility Family and twin stud...
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Testosterone-related abstracts from AAPA 2016

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Facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) is not associated with pubertal testosterone Several researchers have proposed that facial width-to-heig...
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Race Is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue : In an article published today (Feb. 4) in the journal Science, four scholars say racial cat...
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Paleolithic European mtDNA

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Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe ( fre...
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Visscher's commentary on "Limitations of GCTA as a solution to the missing heritability problem"

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Commentary on "Limitations of GCTA as a solution to the missing heritability problem" ( abstract ; pdf ): In a recent publication...
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More ancient DNA from Britain supporting significant later Anglo-Saxon genomic impact

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Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons : The purported migrations that have formed the peoples of ...
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Ancient Irish genomes confirm Bronze Age steppe incursion

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Press release: First ancient Irish human genomes sequenced . BBC: Ancient DNA sheds light on Irish origins . Guardian: Origins of the I...
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Ancient DNA: Late Upper Paleolithic Swiss and Caucasus hunter-gatherers sequenced

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Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians (open access): We extend the scope of European palaeogenomics by seq...
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Selection against Neanderthal introgression (two biorxiv preprints)

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The Strength of Selection Against Neanderthal Introgression Ivan Juric, Simon Aeschbacher, Graham Coop doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/03014...
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"Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe" preprint - updated with Anatolian Neolithic and other data

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Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe The arrival of farming in Europe around 8,500 years ago necessitated adaptation to ...
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Political background and identification of US professors circa 1969

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Previously, we've seen that upper income Jews in Boston voted much further left than Protestant Bostonians in the middle of the 20th ce...
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Religious backgrounds of US professors circa 1969

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This data comes from "a large national sample (60,000) of faculty who filled out questionnaires for the Carnegie Commission on Higher...
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Moldbug's sources: Forrest McDonald, "Celtic Southernism", and the Lew Rockwell school of late 20th C. PC anti-Yankeeism

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

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This conference, aimed at "integrating new evidence for the origin and spread of the Indo-European languages", will take place ne...
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More carriers of deeply diverged Y lineage (haplogroup A00) found in Cameroon

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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...

1000 Genomes phase 3 papers

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

"Male Homosexual Preference" and social stratification

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