Complete genome of Ötzi the Iceman

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It sounds like the sequencing (but not the assembly or analysis) is finished : The most exciting part of their work is yet to come. The sci...
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NordicDB: a Nordic pool and portal for genome-wide control data

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An abstract from European Journal of Human Genetics : A cost-efficient way to increase power in a genetic association study is to pool con...
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"Merit" in elite college admissions

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This story by Cal Newport from douchebag Tim Ferriss's blog goes well with this post from Half Sigma on Jewish "merit" and ...
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An amateur estimate of Sephardic admixture in Latin America

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Argiedude's number , derived through comparison of the frequency of Y haplogroups J1 and J2 in Latin America to those in Spain, looks re...
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Moral reasoning of Westerners vs. others

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A recent paper ( pdf ) affirms a point once made by Ian Jobling:
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Puritan intelligence: the ideological background to IQ

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Anti-IQ academic "blames" intelligence testing and eugenics on Puritans and Quakers. John White. Puritan intelligence: the ideol...
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"Mongoloidness" and pigmentation among Finno-Ugric peoples

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Heapost, L. INDEX OF MONGOLOIDNESS AND PIGMENTATION IN K. MARK STUDIES. Papers on Anthropology; 2004, Vol. 13, p18-37. The paper presents a...
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Norman Mailer on "WASPs"

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A comment at Mangan's reminded me of this quote : In his book Of a Fire on the Moon, ostensibly about the Apollo 11 moon shot, Norman M...
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Ancients perceived color differently?

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Anglo-Irish proto-hippie and Aldous Huxley associate, Gerald Heard speculates: In Homeric Greek the same rudimentary colour vocabulary is e...
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Pigmentation variation in Finno-Ugric peoples

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Leiu Heapost. PIGMENTATION VARIATION IN FINNO-UGRIC PEOPLES. Papers on Anthropology; 2008, Vol. 17, p80-102. The paper presents a short ove...
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Open thread #2

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Post whatever you want. [Links, comments, suggestions, etc.] ( Open thread #1 .)
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Robert Noyce and his congregation

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A commenter at isteve linked to this 1997 Tom Wolfe article : ROBERT NOYCE, INVENTOR OF THE silicon microchip and co-founder of Intel, grew...
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Why it's wrong to catch criminals using the DNA profiles of their convicted felon relatives

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Law professor Jeffrey Rosen says : The biggest immediate concern is that familial searches are racially discriminatory . African-Americans ...
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The origins of liberal progressivism

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According to Kaufmann's The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America : Adler's realist logic brusquely exposed the tension between Reform Jud...

Friars from Spain preaching justice

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So it turns out New England Puritans were able to travel backward in time to spread their insidious message to Catholic and monarchist Spain...
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Blacker blacks have weakers lungs

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Genetic Ancestry in Lung-Function Predictions : "African ancestry was inversely related to forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) ...
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Ancestry Finder from 23andMe released

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https://www.23andme.com/you/labs/ancestry_finder/ A step in the right direction, I guess. But pretty underwhelming, considering what's...
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More Genetics 2010 abstracts

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These selections mostly related to sex differences:
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Reply to Mencius Moldbug on abolitionism

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Moldbug writes: I'm sure your readers would appreciate a discussion of the Jews behind John Brown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secr...
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Admixture analysis using complete genomes

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A paper presented last month at the Genetics 2010 conference: Complete genome sequencing and analysis of diploid African-American and Mexi...