Was there ever a Ruling Class? 1000 years of Social Mobility

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According to Gregory Clark, because of regression to the mean and the lack of any (e.g., racial) barrier preventing gene flow across class...
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Another R1b paper

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The peopling of Europe and the cautionary tale of Y chromosome lineage R-M269 ( full text freely accessible ): Recently, the debate on the ...
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Adaptive introgression of Denisovan HLA alleles across Asia?

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John Hawks : If it turns out that we have widespread adaptive introgression in Asia today from Denisovans, that will change the game of stu...

Deary / Visscher IQ paper

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Those who read Sailer learned of this study a couple weeks ago. I've finally gotten around to looking at the actual paper , which seems...

Y haplogroup R1b and light hair in Italy

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Via Italian Wikipedia.   Update addressing some questions/comments: (1) The map specifically shows the frequency of blond hair; so...
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Variance of R-P312 lineages highest in eastern Europe

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I take this as further evidence most R1b arrived in western Europe by way of eastern (but not southeastern) Europe:
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Recently-revealed structure in Y haplogroup R1a

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Posters at dna-forums.com using data from the 1000 Genomes Project to identify new Y subclades have arrived at the following structure below...
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Swedish McDonald's

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Open thread (7)

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Links, off-topic discussion, etc. Previous open threads: 1 2 3 4 5 6
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Editorial and preliminary paper on People of the British Isles project

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Both freely accessible. A British approach to sampling : The acronym ‘PoBI’ may not yet be familiar to human geneticists in the way that...

Swedish population structure

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Via Dienekes , The Genetic Structure of the Swedish Population : An analysis of genetic differentiation (based on pairwise Fst) indicated t...
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Few of whites' best friends are black

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Friends for better or for worse: Interracial friendship in the United States as seen through wedding party photos ( pdf ): Four findings st...
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More evidence of Sephardic ancestry in some new world Hispanic groups

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Velez et al. The impact of Converso Jews on the genomes of modern Latin Americans. Hum Genet. 2011 Jul 26. [ abstract ] Modern day Latin Am...
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Sorbs autosomally distinct from Germans

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Population-genetic comparison of the Sorbian isolate population in Germany with the German KORA population using genome-wide SNP arrays ( ab...
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Dienekes releases ancestry analysis tool

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

Advice for women and men

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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...
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Ötzi (Tyrolean Iceman) genome coming "soon"

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

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From an article in an Irish genealogy newsletter ( pdf ): "Over the past decade or so genealogists around the world have become increas...
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Svante Paabo to sequence Upper Paleolithic (early modern) Europeans

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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...
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The beautiful woman in medieval Iberia: Rhetoric, cosmetics, and evolution

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