Admixture mapping genes for facial features

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An interesting, if uninformative, abstract from AAPA 2008 (pdf; link via Dienekes): Admixture mapping genes for facial features in African ...

More on Bach

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Stages in Bach reconstruction. If Wilkinson was genuinely unsure about pigmentation, it might have been more "scientific" of her t...

Bach a swarthoid?

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Compare pigmentation: Wilkinson's reconstruction (L) and Haussmann's 1748 portrait (R). Working with a cast of the composer's sk...
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DNAprint methodology

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For those who care, a "new" paper from Shriver, Frudakis, and friends: Hum Mutat. 2008 Feb 19 [Epub ahead of print] A panel of anc...

Testosterone and Dominance in Men

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This paper serves as a good introduction to the relevant literature, and offers a possible explanation for what black-white T differences m...

Salivary T levels markedly lower in African than "Western" males

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Testosterone levels in saliva correlate well with serum testosterone levels [1, 2]. Studies show: "among nomadic and settled Ariaal pas...
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No significant difference in mean fundamental vocal frequencies of black and white men

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Evidence exists for "a negative relationship between circulating levels of testosterone and fundamental frequency, with higher testoste...
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Estimating Local Ancestry in Admixed Populations

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Full text: http://ajhg.org/AJHG/fulltext/S0002-9297(08)00079-7 By the way: Cell Press is proud to take over the publishing of The American J...

Ernst Mayr on getting American citizenship

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When the war was ended I immediately said again to the naturalisation people "Now I want to have my citizenship," and they delayed...

Dumbest argument against McCulloch ever

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Award goes to TGGP : Judging by his last name I am likely more related to Richard McCulloch, but despite that and the Anglophile mild bigotr...
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Ancestries of various US political figures

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Here . On Dubya : The ethnic/national ancestry of George Walker Bush (as far as is currently known) can be shown as: 39.099 121 093 ...
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In honor of Black History Month

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Black invention myths (in case of exceeded bandwidth: cache , archive.org ): Perhaps you've heard the claims: Were it not for the geni...

Spencer Wells and Will Self

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Mildly interesting exchange , with the expected PC commonplaces on Wells' part. WS: Do you think that we are in a race against time her...

Understanding Human History

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Book by Michael Hart: PDF (free, full text) . Blog .

Benjamin Franklin and "White and Red"

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Since "larch" has some reading comprehension problems, and for anyone else who is easily confused, "Red" in the followin...
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Kari Stefansson "doubts [. . .] whether the 16 percent figure will hold up"

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Such tests are surrounded in controversy. These ancestral percentages are easily confused with cultural definitions of race and ethnicity. (...

James Watson admixture claims are invalid: graphic evidence

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Last month, newspapers gleefully circulated deCODE Genetics' claim "that 16% of [Watson's] genes are likely to have come from ...