Rare functional variants in French Canadians

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Whole-Exome Sequencing Reveals a Rapid Change in the Frequency of Rare Functional Variants in a Founding Population of Humans In this work,...

Charles Sumner, pre- and post-France

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Charles Sumner, traveling in Maryland (February 24, 1834) : "The whole country was barren and cheerless; houses were sprinkled very thi...

James Watson: reduce parental age

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DNA pioneer James Watson's genetic prescription: Have kids early "If you add together all the mental diseases ... your chance of ...
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Black men have lower sperm counts than white men

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Semen parameters in fertile US men: the Study for Future Families The Study for Future Families (SFF) recruited men who were partners of ...
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Estimating the proportion of Irish ancestry in the US and Massachusetts

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[See Estimating the proportion of Puritan genes in America's white population for links to census data.] "A Survey of Irish Surna...
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The future of genealogy

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An ASHG 2013 abstract from AncestryDNA: Reconstruction of Ancestral Human Genomes from Genome-Wide DNA Matches. Individuals who lived...
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Evidence both purifying selection and positive selection act on MC1R in S. Europe

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Mol Biol Evol (2013) doi: 10.1093/molbev/mst158 First published online: September 17, 2013 Simultaneous purifying selection on the ancestra...

"Alienated" ethno-religious minorities preferring "inclusive" anti-majority narratives

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Even more importantly, says Ryn, Catholics recognize in Straussians figures who share their own “alienation” about living in a predominantly...
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Arthur Meier Schlesinger channeling Madison Grant (1921)

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The swarming of foreigners into the great industries occurred at considerable cost to the native workingmen, for the latter struggled in vai...

Social changes in New England in the past fifty years (1900)

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If some supernatural observer could have taken a bird's-eye view of New England in 1850 and again in 1900, he would read the story of ch...

Genetic and neuroanatomical influences on political affiliation and ingroup favoritism

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Work from our own group demonstrated that in-group favouritism also contains a substantial heritable component (Lewis & Bates, 2010). In...

The liberal progress narrative and moral foundations

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As we elaborate in this article, we view the “five foundations” of morality as Level 2 psychological constructs that people use in the const...
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In Defense of Israel: How Social Context Affects Jewish-Americans’ Moral Reasoning

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The American Jewish community is liberal, yet some contend that American Jews become more conservative when thinking about the defense of Is...
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Author's Preface to The Puritan Dilemma (1958)

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The Puritans of New England are not in good repute today. Authors and critics who aspire to any degree of sophistication take care to repudi...

While we're at it . . .

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The first anti-slavery novel wasn't written by a "Yankee". It was written by Tory Englishwoman.

"Yankees" and women's suffrage

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Steve Sailer , citing Wikipedia: So it was not surprising that WASPy America was favorable ground for feminism in the early 20th century, as...
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Haidt on moral foundations 2/2

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"As you can see, the lines for Care and Fairness (the two top lines) are moderately high across the board. Everyone—left, right, and ce...
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Haidt on moral foundations 1/2

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Excerpts from the introduction of The Righteous Mind :
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Estimating the proportion of Puritan genes in America's white population

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Ellsworth Huntington estimated about 5500 people bearing the surname Huntington were alive in America circa 1930. Census Bureau estimates ...
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Religion, ethnicity, and political alignment

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Exploring the Bases of Partisanship in the American Electorate: Social Identity vs. Ideology. Political Research Quarterly June 2006 vol. ...