race/history/evolution notes

The paper has now been published: An African American Paternal Lineage Adds an Extremely Ancient Root to the Human Y Chromosome Phylogenetic...

The data: The seemingly highly-confused interpretation offered by the authors: Determining polymorphisms of SNP type from chromosome Y re...

Program here (pdf). Natural selection acts to maintain diversity between Out of Africa and sub-Saharan African populations in genes relate...

Revisiting a Sample of U.S. Billionaires: How Sample Selection and Timing of Maternal Condition Influence Findings on the Trivers-Willard Ef...

New paper from Visscher, Deary, Plomin, and others, with results consistent with previous findings : Intelligence in childhood, as measured...

Starting from this list of Davos attendees, I've attempted to quickly classify the 711 "USA" individuals by racial or ethn...

Molecular Markers Allow to Remove Introgressed Genetic Background: A Simulation Study. PLoS One. 2012;7(11):e49409 Authors: Amador C, To...

Reply to some self-important dork whining about this talk at Dienekes' : "You simply cannot criticize a new, rapidly-evolving ...

Multiculturalism in the life of a society 7

For those interested : "23andMe Raises More Than $50 Million in New Financing / Company Sets Growth Goal Of One Million Customers, Redu...

Preprint at arXiv : The Genographic Project is an international effort using genetic data to chart human migratory history . The project is ...

FIGHTING SHAPED HUMAN HANDS . Protective buttressing of the human fist and the evolution of hominin hands The derived proportions of the h...

New Scientist article ( free copy ) by Mark Pagel (via Jason Malloy's bookmarks ). Some mostly worthwhile paragraphs precede the requis...

Via Sailer . Note: the article is by Ron Unz, though in this case his numbers appear consistent with my own impressions and previous knowle...

For the edification of Whiskey and SeanTodRoy ( pdf ):

Charley Farley ?@charley_farley Very cool PoBI talk from Leslie. I'm one of the red squares - Anglo-Saxon/pre-Roman British admix. Incr...

Here . From "Genome wide association study of sexual orientation in a large, web-based cohort" ( pdf ): Our GWAS results did not ...

New Y-chromosome binary markers improve phylogenetic resolution within haplogroup R1a1 : Despite the limited data available for Z280 and Z93...

23andMe : In September, Moment Magazine got all nerdy and wrote about their Great DNA Experiment, in which they look at the 23andMe resul...

Mangan's is back . New video depicts human migration across generations A new video created by Whitehead Institute in collaboration wi...