Month: February 2017

Humans are just another animal. Different in quantity, not quality.

Stuff people should know, but many don’t.

Happenings.

The passing of a friend.

Odds and ends for  2/12/2017.

Classical hard selective sweeps are still interesting with whole-genome scale analyses.

Genetics confirms deep threads of difference and connection with Anglo-American cultural history.

Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute[1]​. He is the author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World[2]​ and Temptations of Power: Islamist…

Odds and ends for  2/12/2017

How I read. No grand strategy. Just how I do it.

How I read. No grand strategy. Just how I do it.

What’s going on for week of 2/5/2017

What’s going on for week of 2/5/2017

The ‘golden age’ of racial admixture is long past us. It occurred after the Ice Age and before the alphabet, on the edge of human history.

Please use this post to submit bugs as well as feature requests from the perspective of a reader of this website….

Please use this post to submit bugs as well as feature requests from the perspective of a reader of this website….

People often ask me which pop-gen book they should read to understand some of the content on this site. Below are a list I’ve found useful.

David Frum is a senior editor at The Atlantic[1]​. The the author of Dead Right[2]​, How We Got Here: The 70s[3]​, and The Patriots[4]​ (among other books[5]​), he was a speechwriter for Geo…

Most selection in humans seem to be soft sweeps. More classical hard sweeps are found in non-Africans.