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This table appears in Differential Psychology by Anne Anastasi: An "American" group of native parentage was also included for co...

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Predominantly English (contra the Celtic Southern myth ); not even in Appalachia did the Scotch-Irish element predominate:

Brian R. Pellar. On the Origins of the Alphabet. Sino-Platonic Papers, 196. December 2009. ( pdf ): In addition, Petrie’s pre-Egypt theory ...

Vanishing American writes : Another reprehensible myth that is all too widely accepted by many Whites is the idea that ''most black...

" A historian traces the moment when Boston’s dour preachers embraced the market ": Even in down times like these, America’s econ...

From After Strange Gods (1934):

James Bowery: Mind control of young females is all important in the GOD “game”. So why don’t we see more white pimps? Ever watch ” Ameri...

Genetic Diversity among Ancient Nordic Populations : Using established criteria for work with fossil DNA we have analysed mitochondrial DNA...

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...

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

This story by Cal Newport from douchebag Tim Ferriss's blog goes well with this post from Half Sigma on Jewish "merit" and ...

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

A recent paper ( pdf ) affirms a point once made by Ian Jobling:

Anti-IQ academic "blames" intelligence testing and eugenics on Puritans and Quakers. John White. Puritan intelligence: the ideol...

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

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...

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

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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