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Updated Bayesian ancestry analysis software
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Enhanced Bayesian modelling in BAPS software for learning genetic structures of populations. BMC Bioinformatics. 2008 Dec 16;9(1):539 Au...
Sex, race, and selection for height
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A few papers relating to a conversation I'm not particularly interested in. For the record, in the West: Selection worked strongly in f...
Society for Nordish Physical Anthropology: new URL
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The SNPA website is now located at: http://www.theapricity.com/snpa/ The domain also hosts a new forum , from the people who used to run The...
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Geographic population structure in Britain
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This 2007 genome-wide SNP study provides some information on geographic population structure in Britain. Thirteen genomic regions showing...
Balls and brains
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That's The Economist 's headline : The quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa THERE are few be...
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What Americans (used to) look like
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From an early article on Ales Hrdlicka's work [1]: From The Old Americans by Ales Hrdlicka: [1] "The 'Melting Pot' a M...
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Implicit Association Test = leftwing pseudoscience
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Researchers Disagree on Accuracy of Well-Known Bias Test (NYT): “One can decrease racial bias scores on the I.A.T. by simply exposing peop...
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Brues on American physical types
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Based on data collected on a large sample of U.S. soldiers in the middle of the last century, Alice Brues sees six broad physical types in A...
Another nail in the coffin of the Iberian Irish myth
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Within the last few months, the genetic genealogy community has placed a new SNP (L21 / rs11799226) on the Y chromosome phylogenetic tree d...
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More ancient DNA from Germany (Corded Ware burials)
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Via Dienekes : Additionally, the Y chromosome haplogroup R1a of the boys corresponds with the man’s (ind. 3). It is noteworthy that in grav...
Copernicus facial reconstruction
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The identity of the skull was supposedly confirmed through DNA testing . WARSAW, Poland – Researchers said Thursday they have identified ...
New England political thought a century ago
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The conclusion of a 1909 speech by Henry Cabot Lodge (" The Restriction of Immigration "). I have cited a witness of the highest...
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Moldbuggery Redux
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More tiresome calumny against New England Puritans from self-described scion of communist Jews "Mencius Moldbug". Moldbug's l...
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"European Caucasian" unity
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As manifested on the internet: You say Europe is white? You are in dreamland and in denial. Spain white? the Greece white?, Italy white? Th...
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ASHG "Ancestry Testing Statement"
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The statement and press release (via GENEALOGY-DNA-L ). I agree almost entirely with Blaine Bettinger's comments . The funniest part o...
Physical correlates of cognitive ability
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General intelligence has been found to correlate with hair and eye color, among other physical characteristics: Among these physical correl...
America as it might have been
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What would America be like had it experienced no immigration after the colonial era? Ellsworth Huntington addresses this question in his stu...
Pigmentation of old-stock Americans
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Excerpts from a 1922 AJPA article by Ales Hrdlicka (full text free at Google books). Note: Czech immigrant Hrdlicka was on a mission to p...
Technical details on 23andMe's improved global comparison feature
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The feature . Dienekes' comments plus screenshots . A white paper from 23andMe: White Paper 23-04: Global Similarity’s Genetic Similar...
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Northern European population structure
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As mentioned elsewhere by Tuuli Lappalainen, a new analysis of Northern European genome-wide SNP data is available today at PLoS One (...
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