race/history/evolution notes

Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia ( figures ; supplementary information ): The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000–1000 BC) was a pe...

Interesting-looking poster title : Michael Sheehan Morphological and population genomic evidence of selection for individual identity signa...

Mol Biol Evol (2013) doi: 10.1093/molbev/mst158 First published online: September 17, 2013 Simultaneous purifying selection on the ancestra...

I read this a few months ago, but never got around to posting anything on it. On group selection: However, more recently, biologists and an...

Via Italian Wikipedia.   Update addressing some questions/comments: (1) The map specifically shows the frequency of blond hair; so...

From a 2005 Ph.D. thesis by an Italian: Literary portraits of the beautiful woman in medieval Iberia tend to emphasize several physical fea...

Shocking, perhaps, but here are interviewer ratings of black womens' attractiveness vs. skin color from wave 3 of Add health: Variables...

David W. Johnston. Physical Appearance and Wages: Do Blondes Have More Fun? (Economic Letters 108, s. 10-12): Our data source is the 1979 ...

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

Selected abstracts from the 2010 meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.

Wikipedia : "Redheadday is the name of a Dutch summer festival that takes place each first weekend of September in the city of Breda, i...

Additional results from Nathaniel Hirsch's 1926 study of children of immigrants -- this table further subdividing the sample by degree ...

Heapost, L. INDEX OF MONGOLOIDNESS AND PIGMENTATION IN K. MARK STUDIES. Papers on Anthropology; 2004, Vol. 13, p18-37. The paper presents a...

Leiu Heapost. PIGMENTATION VARIATION IN FINNO-UGRIC PEOPLES. Papers on Anthropology; 2008, Vol. 17, p80-102. The paper presents a short ove...

This study ("Eye color predicts but does not directly influence perceived dominance in men") has gotten some attention , having ...

"Carole Jahme shines the cold light of evolutionary psychology on everyday life. This week: The allure of blonde women ": Caucasi...

Scientific American article containing little new information, aside from an update on what Mark Shriver is working on: “The body interpr...

Researchers "quantified continuous eye color variation into hue and saturation values using high-resolution digital full-eye photograph...

Lucotte et al. A decreasing gradient of 374F allele frequencies in the skin pigmentation gene SLC45A2, from the north of West Europe to Nort...

More fun with Swedish girls: Functions of a German heterostereotype. SM SCHRÖDER, M DALE Ethnologia Scandinavica 27, 122-137, Royal Gustav A...