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 )Still don’t get the mad American attitude to race.
I have observed that criticising anything any black American doeswill instantly pull down a heap of crap upon your head, and you will then be told it’s all your own fault because ‘white people did something bad’. For any non American reading this, no, I’m not joking. Just daring to disagree brings a a real [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Got called a white supremacist today..
So, I have been accused of be a white supremacist on my comments because… I wrote an entry on the Eurasian back migration into Africa, inferred from about fifteen total different DNA/skull studies of North and East Africa. So apparently it’s some form of racism to observe that over half the haplotypes in Mauritania are [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fewer slugs, thank god.
I must have killed most of the damn things the night before. So far I’ve only had about 15 in the traps today. Trap number 4 seems to be by far the most lethal, with 12 in it. It’s got very steep sides. I think I’ll swap numbers 1-3 over to my little glass pots to se if [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Another stay at home day, thinking about anthropology.
Feeling inexplicably wasted today, and I’m having a bit of trouble focussing on the screen.
MUST HAVE CAFFEINE!!! AND CHOCOLATE….
I think I blogged about eight or nine entries yesterday, what a busy bunny I’ve been.
I’m blogging the European mt DNA because I want to see if there’s been any expansion Southwards of the population along with [...]
