It's been exactly three years since I moved on from Discover. Change is timeless. So I thought it would be a good time to announce the move to another project today. Until further notice this is ...
The Eurogenes blog is running a fundraiser. I chipped in mostly to support his continued blogging. I don't agree with everything he posts, but the site is a good and valuable resource. "Genome bl...
https://www.unz.com/gnxp/razib-khan-at-the-center-of-eurasia/
Tad Williams has a new book set in Osten Ard, The Heart of What Was Lost. At only 224 pages it seems more like a novella compared to what he produced for his original series. The last of that of ...
MIT Technology Review has an article up, Do Your Family Members Have a Right to Your Genetic Code?, which is now part of the genomics-human-interest-piece genre you see regularly. Here you have t...
https://www.unz.com/gnxp/genomics-is-not-magic-there-is-no-magic/
I began playing video games as a child after the crash of 1983. At the time I wasn't aware of the tumult in the culture and the technology scene that that had caused. Video games were just fun, n...
So I have an Amazon referrer account. I've had one since 2003. Pretty much I use it to get money when people buy books (or other items) through links here. It's a non-trivial, though not princely...
https://www.unz.com/gnxp/top-books-purchased-through-this-site/
I spruced up my personal website recently. It was getting sort of cluttered. Also, the new theme should look better on mobile. Not sure how long Twitter will be around, but as long as it's around...
If you follow Y genealogy you know that the distribution of R1ba2 exhibits a peculiar pattern. R1b is the most common haplgroup in Western Eurasia, and shares a deep common ancestry with R1a. It ...
https://www.unz.com/gnxp/afro-asiatic-and-eurasian-backflow/
A new paper in The American Journal of Humans Genetics, The Divergence of Neandertal and Modern Human Y Chromosomes, reports on possible reasons why we don't see Y chromosomes in modern humans fr...
https://www.unz.com/gnxp/the-species-barriers-between-neanderthals-and-anatomically-modern-humans/
Went to Z & Y in San Francisco recently. Second time. Still have to give Mala in Houston better marks. A friend who has been to both agrees. Been busy working recently. But obviously a lot is goi...
A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media
Listened to an interesting interview this morning with the author of a new book, The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race. There was a lot to agree with and disagree wi...
https://www.unz.com/gnxp/putting-the-semantics-before-the-horse/
Back in the 2000s I used to write a lot about "adaptive introgression." This was partly due to conversations with, and influence from, people like John Hawks and Greg Cochran. The theoretical fra...
Now reading Hume: An Intellectual Biography. David Hume was a man of moderation in his private life. Something to consider. I was in New York City yesterday. I got a cab from the Upper East Side ...
I do not spend much time thinking about politics at this point in my life. Therefore I have little to say that is very important or interesting, though I take a passing casual interest. The map a...
https://www.unz.com/gnxp/the-end-of-the-long-20th-century-1915-2016/
Eurogenes points me to this interesting conference with a book of abstracts, Human Dispersals in the Late Pleistocene - Interdisciplinary Approaches Towards Understanding the Worldwide Expansion ...
One of the first things I wrote on the internet related to Indonesian Islam, and what we could expect in the future. This was before Gene Expression, and I don't have archives of that blog. There...
https://www.unz.com/gnxp/indonesian-islam-is-getting-modern-not-conservative/
My prediction above. Based on a few minutes scanning online. Also, I suspect that Trump supported is being overestimated. Low confidence that I'm adding value with my opinion. After finishing Unf...
Would You Want To Know The Secrets Hidden In Your Baby's Genes? Turns out most people don't. The article profiles the BabySeq Project, and the offer of whole exome sequencing (exomes are the part...
Three major events have shaped the distribution and abundance of modern humans across planet earth over the past 50,000 years. First, the "Out of Africa" event. Second, the Last Glacial Maximum ~...
https://www.unz.com/gnxp/the-first-settlement-and-last-glacial-maximum/
I'm reading Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain. Not as well paced as his previous After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000, but pretty good nonetheless. Pol...
There are several reports in the media about a third hominin group besides Denisovans and Neanderthals, and how they contributed to Melanesians. Science News has a sober summary of it all. Severa...
https://www.unz.com/gnxp/no-one-knows-about-the-third-human-admixture-into-melanesians/
For various sociocultural reasons ancient Egyptians are a big deal. The pyramids of Giza are about as distant from the time of Augustus as Classical Rome is from us. When the pyramids were rising...
I really admire what 23andMe has done. To a great extent they are the "Uber" of DTC personal genomics. FamilyTree DNA really pioneered the sector in the early 2000s, while The Genographic Project...
https://www.unz.com/gnxp/why-23andme-is-no-longer-leading-on-personal-genomics/
A friend of mine introduced me to Mr. Robot a month ago. The show was difficult for me to follow, and I don't watch much TV in the first place ("watching TV" is like making a "mix tape"; there's ...