race/history/evolution notes

23andMe say they have 30,000+ "active" genomes in their database and will launch Relative Finder "soon". The beta versi...

Some light reading or listening for Halloween. This book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe’en...

A somewhat tedious history of the eugenics movement by The Architecture of Doom -director Peter Cohen. Google videos link ; Wikipedia ; I...

No. According to the DOJ : an estimated 32% of black males will enter State or Federal prison during their lifetime, compared to 17% of His...

News outlets are reporting on Svante Paabo's comment that he believes modern humans and Neanderthals "had sex". I'm not s...

A commenter has drawn my attention to this hilarious attack on me the world's dumbest internet lawyer. White's comments don't ...

A comparison of my estimates for the 2009 list to Nathaniel Weyl's for 1987. 1987 (%) 2009 (%) % change ...

[ Related: 2012 Forbes 400 by ethnic origins ] [ Edit: Moved from Jewish section: John Abele and (per comments at Sailer's) Warren S...

Steve Sailer mentions that Jacob Berkman includes Meg Whitman in a list of Forbes 400 Jews (" At least 139 of the Forbes 400 are Jewis...

Blaine Bettinger has some interesting posts up: The Future of Genetic Genealogy – Tracing DNA To Individual Ancestor A New Tool For Geneti...

Columbus lived and died a faithful child of the Church; he carried the Cross to America, — indeed, he carried it there in every sense of the...

Jason Richwine writes : Now “Calvinist” is a scary word in social policy, but I am strongly inclined to believe that civic engagement is bi...

Interesting : Variants in Neuropeptide Y Receptor 1 and 5 Are Associated with Nutrient-Specific Food Intake and Are Under Recent Selection ...

"White" Brazilians average ~70-80% European ancestry depending on the region ( full text ). Studies with autosomal biparental ma...

I'm not a fan of Bryan Sykes, but more data is always good -- and who knows if another study like this will ever be funded. Participant...

Steve McNallen : Two thousand years ago this day, the Germans struck for their freedom and for their very existence as a people! // It was ...

Something new I got out of Scott Woodward's Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation presentation ( slides ) at the DTC Genetic Testing...

Update: John Hawks comments . An article published today in the Daily Mail proclaims "Ancient skeletons discovered in Georgia thre...

The Scientist reports : Prostate cancer is increasingly looking like an infectious disease, and may be sexually transmitted Mounting evid...

This appears to be an up-to-date summary of much of the genetic, archaeological, linguistic, and skeletal evidence relating to the origins ...