Remedial population genetics for Greg Cochran

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From Graham Coop's population genetics notes : 1.4 Inbreeding We can define an inbred individual as an individual whose parents are mor...
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Jeb Bush and G.W. Bush have more non-New England than New England ancestry

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Prompted by a troll post at Sailer's, I did a quick tally of the regional ancestries of Jeb's and G.W.'s great, great, great-gra...
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"American Nations" and magical thinking

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Vanishing American, in a longer post , which I highly recommend reading and which I'll probably write more about later, notes: This who...
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Ancestry of author Colin Woodard

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It seems some people have the impression that American Nations -author and JayMan's hero Colin Woodard is some sort of archetypal, Purit...
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Kinship coefficients and Ethnic Genetic Interests (JayMan embarrassing himself again)

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Contra the White Nationalists, there’s no such thing as “ ethnic genetic interests .” JayMan supports the above JayMan assertion by linki...
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Massive migration from the steppe is a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

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New preprint confirming what those of us who were paying attention were able to infer years ago : We generated genome-wide data from 69 Eu...
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Ethnic origins of Sony Pictures leadership

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Hacked documents reveal a Hollywood studio’s stunning gender and race gap : One other observation to make about Sony Pictures’ top-paid e...
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Ust'-Ishim: Ancient DNA offers the first of what I expect in the coming years will be many disappointments to those emotionally invested in a SE Asian origin for K-M526

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It's been asserted , on crude phylogeographic grounds, that K-M526 originated in South East Asia. A SE Asian origin for K-M526 is credib...
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EthnicMuse's race and testosterone "meta-analysis"

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A commenter asks : What do you think of this website and his analysis of testosterone levels in different racial groups? https://ethnicmus...

Investigating Population History Using Temporal Genetic Differentiation

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Investigating Population History Using Temporal Genetic Differentiation The rapid advance of sequencing technology, coupled with improvemen...

Demography and the Age of Rare Variants

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Demography and the Age of Rare Variants In this paper we describe a method for estimating the age of rare genetic variants. These ages are...

"25% of the variance in gene expression is due to population differences"

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Transcriptome Sequencing from Diverse Human Populations Reveals Differentiated Regulatory Architecture To better understand the spectrum...
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Testosterone and intergroup competition

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Does Competition Really Bring Out the Worst? Testosterone, Social Distance and Inter-Male Competition Shape Parochial Altruism in Human Male...
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Physical attractiveness as a phenotypic marker of health

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Physical attractiveness as a phenotypic marker of health: an assessment using a nationally representative sample of American adults Evoluti...
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"Monkeys' faces evolved to avoid crossbreeding"

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BBC: Guenon monkeys' colourful and varied faces have evolved as a way to avoid crossbreeding, scientists have found . Dr James Higham, s...

SMBE 2014: more (several dozen) abstracts touching on recent evolution in humans

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Detecting patterns of global and local positive selection by examining novel variants in the exomes of 7 world-wide human populations ...

SMBE 2014: Insights on Sexually Antagonistic Selection in the Human Genome

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Insights on Sexually Antagonistic Selection in the Human Genome Elise Lucotte 1 , Romain Laurent 1 ,2 , Laure Segur...

SMBE 2014: Genome-wide ancestry patterns in Easter Islanders suggest a pre-European admixture event with Native Americans

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Genome-wide ancestry patterns in Easter Islanders suggest a pre-European admixture event with Native Americans José-Víctor Moreno-Mayar*...
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SMBE 2014: Whole genome sequencing of an Ashkenazi Jewish reference panel supports population-targeted personal genomics and illuminates Jewish and European origins

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Whole genome sequencing of an Ashkenazi Jewish reference panel supports population-targeted personal genomics and illuminates Jewish and ...

SMBE 2014: Evidence for different mutation rates across human populations

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Evidence for different mutation rates across human populations Ron Do , David Reich Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School,...