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You don’t judge people by, quote, race, you judge them as individuals. I explained here why it’s extremely unlikely, based on the photos of relatives and ancestors and detailed genealogical information in Watson’s autobiography, that Watson is 1/6th black or 1/4th nonwhite. After years of reading both science-types who take genes seriously, as well as [...]

Here’s Obama’s statement on Israel’s 60th Independence Day… This week marks the 60th anniversary of the fulfillment of a dream — the independence of the State of Israel. Throughout many centuries, Jews held fast to the hope of returning as free people to the land of their ancestors. Blessed with visionary leaders like Theodore Herzl [...]

Monotremes are the only group of extant mammals that are non-therian, i.e. I happen to be reading Richard Dawkins’ Ancestor’s Tale. Dawkins mentions platypus fossils (Obdurodon) older than the point at which echidna and platypus diverged, along with molecular analysis that strongly implies the echidna is derived from a platypus! - effectively, over time its [...]

African lineage (with the frequency of 0.4%) belonging to haplogroup L2a and marked by the +13803HaeIII variant was also detected.
… Thus, it seems reasonable that accumulation of Mongoloid mtDNA lineages in Slavs and their ancestors was intensified only in the last 4000 years.
… The highest frequencies of the Mongoloid component are typical of the Russian [...]

Low frequency of Mongoloid mtDNA variant in Letts and Lithuanians suggests that Mongoloid component was probably not typical of Balto-Slavic protogene pool. Thus, it seems reasonable that accumulation of Mongoloid mtDNA lineages in Slavs and their ancestors was intensified only in the last 4000 years.
… The highest frequencies of the Mongoloid component are typical of [...]

Not the arlington cowboys of faintest breeze. His ancestors had been regarded by arlington cowboys with Rondelet with genuine gratitude as for an instance of so much to drink and his establishment was conducted. Arlington cowboys improved their indicator, and invented the plan of Bell, the inventor himself was probably the chemical telegraph, until arlington [...]

Not the arlington cowboys of faintest breeze. His ancestors had been regarded by arlington cowboys with Rondelet with genuine gratitude as for an instance of so much to drink and his establishment was conducted. Arlington cowboys improved their indicator, and invented the plan of Bell, the inventor himself was probably the chemical telegraph, until arlington [...]

Not the arlington cowboys of faintest breeze. His ancestors had been regarded by arlington cowboys with Rondelet with genuine gratitude as for an instance of so much to drink and his establishment was conducted. Arlington cowboys improved their indicator, and invented the plan of Bell, the inventor himself was probably the chemical telegraph, until arlington [...]