race/history/evolution notes

Amanda M Casto et al. Characterization of X-Linked SNP genotypic variation in globally-distributed human populations . Genome Biology 2010, ...

Scheduled for 24th Sep 2010 at the Sanger Institute : Origins and evolution of the Etruscans’ DNA Speaker: Dr Guido Barbujani Affiliatio...

No. This spurious quotation attributed to George Washington has been promoted recently by a poster at Majority Rights: “I am a citizen of ...

Guy White "logic": reporting on an incident of bestiality which he asserts "does carry several stereotypes", one of the...

Skip Gates' Faces of the Universe America , featuring Yo-Yo Ma (Paris-born Chinese), Queen Noor (half-Syrian resident of Jordan), Malco...

Jason Malloy, in his review of Richard Lynn's Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis , writes: For the first time ...

Moldbug outed himself today in a post at Unqualified Convolutions, so I see no harm in drawing attention to one of his early (semi-autobiogr...

Some discussion at Mangan's prompted me to look for studies comparing Europeans of various nationalities on tests of musical aptitude....

Heartwarming : Vanuatu villagers whose ancestors killed and ate a Scottish missionary in the 19th century have apologised to the man's ...

Nothing surprising here : Argentineans carried a large fraction of European genetic heritage in their Y-chromosomal (94.1%) and autosomal (...

A new podcast from Lars Brownworth .

Polako writes : About 250 Funnelbeaker (Trichterbecherkultur) and Wartberg Culture skeletons are being tested for Y-DNA, mtDNA and autosoma...

Not a comprehensive review, just a summary of the first few studies I found. A study of adolescents in Minnesota finds finds 2.1% of white...

Blue Anonymous asked about this. The evidence I've seen suggests that in the US, black men average similar or very slightly greater musc...

This author will have multiculturalists know that psychotherapy is not a White thing. Multicultural literature often states that psychother...

A news story about a recently released paper : The team used short-read assembly approaches to put together new Asian and African genomes,...

Nathaniel Weyl, writing in 1973: The hypothesis which I should like to explore in these pages is that the criminality of races and subraces...

NEHGS eNews describes one of Harvard's online collections : While the collection stretches from the signing of the Constitution to the...

Interesting article, though probably wrong at least in some places ( pdf ): Conventional wisdom has regarded low self-esteem as an importan...

As we've seen , not testosterone. A much better candidate for explaining racial differences in criminality: racial differences in intell...