race/history/evolution notes

Michael J. Powell essentially summarizing Baltzell on the formation of the previous American upper class: In the latter half of the ninetee...

I like standardized tests and I'm not a fan of E. Michael Jones, but I found this interesting. In the early 1950s Stanley H. Kaplan, a...

Audacious Epigone presents data showing Episcopalians average higher IQs than Jews while earning much less. Jews apparently earn much more ...

[Reposted from elsewhere.] Nathaniel Weyl's calculations show Jews rather dramatically underrepresented in the Social Register as of ...

Source: The American CEO in the Twentieth Century: Demography and Career Path For comparison, according to a 2001 survey [1]: 1.3% of Ameri...

The Myth of Old Money Liberalism: The Politics of the Forbes 400 Richest Americans ( pdf ): In the sociology of the capitalist class, no co...

Not exactly news, but we do finally get to see European, Jewish, and Middle Eastern samples on the same plot. This plot seems consistent wi...

One Aravinda Chakravarti opines in Nature [1]: Genealogical records are currently the system of choice for people tracing their family hi...

According to David Faux : Any of you who have decodeme data will be pleasantly surprised at the new ancestry features now or soon available...

Looks like someone forgot to tell GW's countrymen that all Europeans are identically "white". London police radio codes : Giv...

Helgason A, Lalueza-Fox C, Ghosh S, Sigurðardóttir S, Sampietro ML, et al. (2009) Sequences From First Settlers Reveal Rapid Evolution in Ic...

Cameron EZ, Dalerum F (2009) A Trivers-Willard Effect in Contemporary Humans: Male-Biased Sex Ratios among Billionaires . PLoS ONE 4(1): e41...

For wildlife : Researchers see 'evolution in reverse' as hunters kill off prized animals with the biggest antlers and pelts. Some of...

Vanishing American has posted excerpts from an article on the origins of the Puritan settlers of New England, which I reproduce in part be...

Some trivia, apropos of nothing in particular. I've formed no strong opinion on the validity of the individual claims below, but these e...

Their book ( The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution ) hasn't yet been released, but much of it is now r...

Headline from The Telegraph , reporting on the results of a survey by ancestry.co.uk last month. The Daily Mail has more details : [British...

New Scientist: Molecular fireworks could produce '30-minute genomes' : A more promising approach is to watch a molecule of double-s...

"WASP" is a pejorative for (unhyphenated) "American". The term may be applied to broad or narrow segments of the foundin...