race/history/evolution notes

Full text is free : The extent to which the transition to agriculture in Europe was the result of biological (demic) diffusion from the Nea...

On the second-to-last page of The $1,000 Genome , Kevin Davies recounts noticing two small children running around at the GET (Genomes, Envi...

From their most recent newsletter ( pdf ): We are pleased to tell you that we have just submitted our first scientific paper about the proj...

Part of a series of lectures related to the " Secrets of the Silk Road " exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Ar...

Via GenomeWeb Daily News : "Our findings suggest that recent human adaptation has not taken place through the arrival and spread of si...

Apparently not due out for another year , but here's what Bryan Sykes has been working on: The best-selling author of The Seven Daughte...

Ahnenkult: Miscellaneous musings on the Ainu ; race quotes Hail: USA’s Total Fertility Rates by Race, 1980-2008 ; The Decline of Abortion ...

The Explico Historical Research Foundation : will attempt to find out if Rollo the Viking [male line ancestor of William the Conqueror] was...

For links, comments, suggestions, etc. Previous open threads: 1 2 3 4

Basque communist Maju thinks this study indicates "patterns of inter-population differentiation are stronger in the genes of appearan...

A commenter links to an article in Foreign Policy which argues: With China's new prominence in global affairs, the Han race, which con...

A reader forwards a reference to this passage by Hebrew wigger / wigger expert William Upski Wimsatt. In line with my own perception of wha...

More from Jantz on Boas : CONCLUSIONS: The results support the two hypotheses tested. Change in Hebrew cranial indices resulted from abando...

Different level of population differentiation among human genes : Background During the colonization of the world, after dispersal out of ...

David W. Johnston. Physical Appearance and Wages: Do Blondes Have More Fun? (Economic Letters 108, s. 10-12): Our data source is the 1979 ...

I'll skip the predictions (you're welcome to post your own), and just post a bit more information on a few projects that should be a...

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...