Unz Review
Did the Khoisans’ ancestors once rule the earth?
It is common for strong results from population genetics to be confused when it is translated for public consumption. The ...
How should parents deal with preimplantation genetic information?
In the following post at Patheos the author reflects on the fact that her teenage daughter inherited her genetic condition, a predisposition ...
Why some ancestry might not show up in your DNA
Most Americans with colonial stock in their family could probably trace at least one genealogical line back to a Native ...
Speciation is a human construct, sometimes genetics often don’t overlap
Scientific taxonomy is only a rough and approximate mapping of the reality of natural history and evolutionary genetics, which it ...
Genetics of ‘race’ unequivocal, only seems controversial because post-modernists, PC media dissimulate
Nicholas Wade’s "A Troublesome Inheritance" has come under attack in some circles because it acknowledges what is an unarguable fact ...
On earwax, body odor and culture: A genetic explanation
When I was in college a Korean American friend confided to me that his roommate had an issue. He had ...
Estimates that 10% of fathers are duped about paternity is wrong; Probably more like 1 to 3%
As I have stated before one of the strangest things to me is the ‘urban myth’ among many biologists that ...
Population size may be clue to why Neanderthals suffered and Neo-African humans survived
A new paper in PNAS, Patterns of coding variation in the complete exomes of three Neandertals, reiterates what seems to ...
Taboo: The left’s problem with genetics of race and sex and human differences
Hard-wired differences among groups is one of the most controversial subjects in society, whether we are discussing race or sex ...
Measuring genetic distance is harder than you’d think
You've probably heard or read that most genetic variation is within, not between races. This assertion has led, in my ...
Human Genome Diversity Project preserves detailed info of isolated population groups
The recent "Genetic Atlas of Human Admixture History" shines a light on the useful, unique, and publicly available Human Genome ...
Whiteness and Europeans haven’t always gone hand-in-hand
One of the most interesting results in the preprint on ancient European genetics (or more accurately, the ethnogenesis of Europeans ...