race/history/evolution notes

For people with 23andMe or Family Finder data ( background ; download ). Don't take the component names too literally or assume this par...

Some woman : "In the end, infertility can make you feel less human. As cultivated as we are, we hold on to a deep-rooted belief that ou...

Someone at a genealogical DNA forum posts a reply received from the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Bolzano, Italy: "The Icema...

From an article in an Irish genealogy newsletter ( pdf ): "Over the past decade or so genealogists around the world have become increas...

Paabo collected samples of 19,000 year old bone from Iberia and intends to test the theory that Northern Europeans derive from a Last Glacia...

From a 2005 Ph.D. thesis by an Italian: Literary portraits of the beautiful woman in medieval Iberia tend to emphasize several physical fea...

Nature editorial urges "caution when it comes to questioning the work of scientists who are no longer with us." This month sees...

Ahnenkult: An Uyghur redhead Peter Frost: Big Other ? "It is even doubtful whether the east-west flow of ideas explains the rise of t...

Shocking, perhaps, but here are interviewer ratings of black womens' attractiveness vs. skin color from wave 3 of Add health: Variables...

A post by Dienekes brings to my attention a paper in PNAS , " Ancient DNA reveals male diffusion through the Neolithic Mediterranean r...

Who was the mother of Ingmar Bergman? The mystery is even greater given that Karin Bergman, who kept extensive diaries, recording both eve...

Another point of confusion in Kanazawa's deleted post : There are many biological and genetic differences between the races. However, s...

Via the isteve comments section, I learn of a now-deleted Psychology Today blog entry by Satoshi Kanazawa, headlined "Why Are Black Wo...

Details here . RE this blog: Busy right now, but more real posts coming eventually.

Ponting CP. What are the genomic drivers of the rapid evolution of PRDM9? Trends Genet. 2011 Mar 7. [Epub ahead of print] [ abstract ] Mamm...

Laayouni H, Montanucci L, Sikora M, Melé M, Dall'Olio GM, et al. (2011) Similarity in Recombination Rate Estimates Highly Correlates wit...

Though hardly definitive, this study certainly lends no support to the notion that black dominance of short sprints in the US can be explai...

From the website of genealogist William Addams Reitwiesner, who died last year . The Ethnic ancestry of Prince William (b. 1982) : Every so...

The Unsilenced Science: The Racial Controversy of a Violent Gene Viking ancestry explored on the Isle of Man by researchers Viking'...

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