race/history/evolution notes

Steve Sailer says he's "been alerted that there should be science news soon of a caliber comparable to the recent human-neandertha...

Says this guy . While the author seems to be motivated by race-denialism, I think he's probably right that "forcing STRUCTURE to pl...

"dumb blonde" "fair and handsome" vs. "dark and handsome" "melting pot" "immigrant sto...

I had a similar reaction when the original article was published, but this piece in the Journal of Human Evolution makes a much more exten...

Wikileaks: US Says Chinese Spies Operate in Iceland Chinese authorities are believed to be spying on companies involved in genealogy and me...

Tables from Admixed Ancestry and Stratification of Quebec Regional Populations :

Some fairly random excerpts from Timothy Dwight 's Travels in New England and New York (4 vols., 1821–1822).

Polako: Locating and visualizing minority non-European admixtures across our genomes Dienekes: Clusters galore: extremely fine-scale ances...

TGGP drops a link to an article (republished by the ever-daring LewRockwell.com) by a HuffingtonPost contributor who fancies himself a purv...

For those who are interested, according to someone on twitter: DIYgenomics: @23andMe $99 discount returns; code B84YAG to be live 10 AM Wed...

PDF slides of some presentations from Family Tree DNA's "6th International Conference on Genetic Genealogy", which took place ...

Teeth and leg bones from Iron Age people are showing a 21st century scientific-research team that there might be an evolutionary silver lini...

A new subclade of mtDNA haplogroup C1 found in icelanders: Evidence of pre-columbian contact? Although most mtDNA lineages observed in cont...

A reader forwarded me this message, posted to a mailing list by a third party: One of my project members wrote to one of the organisers of ...

When Genetics and Genealogies Tell Different Stories-Maternal Lineages in Gaspesia Data from uniparentally inherited genetic systems were u...

Jombart T, Devillard S, Balloux F. Discriminant analysis of principal components: a new method for the analysis of genetically structured po...

Ray N, Currat M, Foll M, Excoffier L. SPLATCHE2: a spatially-explicit simulation framework for complex demography, genetic admixture and rec...

Does Masculinity Matter? The Contribution of Masculine Face Shape to Male Attractiveness in Humans ( PLoS ONE ): The proposal [. . .] that...

A commenter links to a 2007 neuropolitics.org post (" Who Are The Caucasians Attracted To? Politics, Religion, and Physical Attraction ...

Mangan on Transparency International's World Corruption Index A One-Way Human Mission to Mars : There are many reasons why a human co...