Racial purity and other genetic bugbears.
A fair amount of the studies I blog involve Africa and the near East (most really) and it’s typical to see ‘admixture’ amounts in them, how much typically sub Saharan mt DNA is in Arabs, how much Arab in Africans, etc. Lets me just get one thing straight; anyone from East Africa, North Africa or [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Just the weekend to go before school…
Before the little darlings go back to school. Education is a wonderful thing.
So… NubianMoor has just got himself on the comments blacklist. He took a real dislike to the large amounts of studies observing a Eurasian back migration into North Africa dating to about 35K ago and called me a white supremacist. Is this some [...]
So, the anthropology blog breaks 300 hits a day, and blond Egyptians.
Which is pretty respectable. Dienekes seems to get about 900+, and my blog is pretty small compared to his. I admit, a lot of it is a beginners introduction to lost/odd peoples. So far, the Jarawa and Onge have pulled in the most hits overall. Putting in a lot of pictures seems to help pull [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )Quiet Friday.
A long, snoozywarm friday. I really should be doing some kind of housework, but sod it. The boy managed to get me to put jigsaw puzzles together with him (he’s way behind his sister, she was doing 36 peice puzzles at 2 1/2 years).
Bollocks to trying him with no nappy this week, I can’t face [...]
I’m getting the hang of using my blogs.
I managed six blog entries yesterday, I guess I’ve made up for the time I was on holiday. Who’d have thought Dienekes Greek Y chromosome article would prove so popular. My big hitters are ‘the Jarawa and Onge’ and ‘The Harappans’. I think they account for about half the traffic through my blog. Why them, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )And relaxing at home..
Chance would be a fine thing. At least I had the presence of mind to clean the house before I went on holiday. I now have a pile of ironing up to my armpits, and the lawn needs a mow (that’s HIS job).
So, straight back to afrocentrist baiting on youtube… I just can’t help myself. [...]
