A Genetic Census of America

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More complete AncestryDNA estimates of genetic ancestry by state (interactive maps at link): Using AncestryDNA results from over a quarter ...

Genetic estimate of percent Irish ancestry in US

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' Based on AncestryDNA ethnicity estimates for over 300,000 AncestryDNA customers*, the AncestryDNA science team set out to discover the...
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ESEB 2013 abstracts and videos

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Some abstracts and videos from the 2013 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Genetic genealogy comes of age: advanc...
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Genetic genealogy talks

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Some DNA lectures from Who Do You Think You Are 2014: Scottish DNA - Clans, Families, and Surnames (Alasdair Macdonald) Wales, DNA ...
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Heritability of facial attractiveness and masculinity-femininity

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Estimating the Sex-Specific Effects of Genes on Facial Attractiveness and Sexual Dimorphism ( pdf ) Human facial attractiveness and facial...
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Population genetics talks

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Some videos from a " Computation-Intensive Probabilistic and Statistical Methods for Large-Scale Population Genomics " workshop t...

Individual identity signaling in humans

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Interesting-looking poster title : Michael Sheehan Morphological and population genomic evidence of selection for individual identity signa...

"Tracing the Indo-Europeans" conference videos

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David Anthony, Wheeled vehicles, horses, and Indo-European origins ( link ) Paper presented at the seminar "Tracing the Indo-Europea...
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Friendship and natural selection

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NRNB Symposium on Network Biology 2012, Gladstone institutes, San Francisco: James Fowler presents Friendship and Natural Selection ( link...
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Modeling European demographic history using neutral genomic regions

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Neutral genomic regions refine models of recent rapid human population growth In this study, we introduce targeted sequencing data for stu...
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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...