race/history/evolution notes

Desmond asked: If you have a moment possibly you could explain Coon's theory of racial origin. Coon argued the fossil record showed th...

According to this analysis : Journal of Human Evolution Article in Press, Corrected Proof Shara E. Bailey et al. Who made the Aurignac...

Genetically whiter blacks have lower BMIs: Admixture mapping of 15,280 African Americans identifies obesity susceptibility Loci on chromosom...

Gracile Northern Caucasoids are gracile Northern Caucasoids -- not exactly surprising in light of ancient and modern genetic data and archa...

re: Peter Frost "It's impossible to estimate BMI simply from skeletal remains." Wrong. You can dispute the accuracy of th...

. . . because that might mean modern humans aren't all the same. Afram genius John McWhorter displays his brilliant powers of reasonin...

Biswas et al. Genome-wide Insights into the Patterns and Determinants of Fine-Scale Population Structure in Humans . The American Journal of...

Here is a PDF version of Jonathan Spiro's 998-page doctoral dissertation, Patrician Racist: The Evolution of Madison Grant (on which S...

[Edit: removed "Mangan" from title. Mangan says he would have posted the comment had it been worded differently, which I can resp...

Bouakaze et al. Pigment phenotype and biogeographical ancestry from ancient skeletal remains: inferences from multiplexed autosomal SNP anal...

["Riverside" is Berlin, Wisconsin .] Miriam J. Wells. Ethnicity, Social Stigma, and Resource Mobilization in Rural America: Reex...

The following entry from Polak showed up in my feed reader, though Polak seems to have removed it from his site. Recent positive selection ...

Brainy men may be healthier men : A new study of 3654 Vietnam War veterans finds that men with lower IQs are more likely to suffer from doz...

Interesting results. We estimate admixture proportions of 14 % (95% CI: 8 – 20 %) in the European-American sample and 1.5% (95% CI: 0.5 – 2...

Regarding the recently published African genetic structure paper . (1) The following bit of asininity from Afro-Jew Roy King made it into...

European Journal of Human Genetics advance online publication 6 May 2009; doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2009.69 Isolated populations as treasure trov...

I've compiled some genealogical data on Madison Grant , Carleton Coon , Carleton Putnam , and Charles Davenport . It's well known ...

Gelya Frank. Jews, Multiculturalism, and Boasian Anthropology . American Anthropologist , New Series, Vol. 99, No. 4 (Dec., 1997), pp. 731-7...

More evidence the switch from hunting/gathering to settled agriculture was associated with diminished human health: The project has taken 8...

Dienekes points out yet another study that uses autosomal SNP microarray data to infer population structure, which finds [1]: South Indian ...