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Nature publication
I haven’t been writing as much here recently, because I’ve been working on a “News and Views” article for Nature….and now I can finally talk about it! Here’s a link to my article:...
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The oldest North American genome and what it tells us about the peopling of...
Last Wednesday, Dr. Morton Rasmussen of the Natural History Museum of Denmark and his colleagues announced that they had completely sequenced the genome of an infant boy, buried ~12,600 years ago in...
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Problematic science journalism: Native American ancestry and the Solutrean...
This is the second post in a series discussing the recent publication of a 12,500 year old genome from Montana. You can find the first post here. In the weeks following the publication of the complete...
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Nicholas Wade and race: building a scientific façade
“…for he has no right to give names to objects which he cannot define.” –Charles Darwin Do “races” exist as meaningful biological categories? Physical anthropologists and human biologists have been...
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Nicholas Wade’s troublesome approach to scientific critiques
Nicholas Wade has a problem. Although his new book, “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History”, appears to be selling well, he’s not encountering the praise that he expected from...
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Yet more responses to scientific racism
In recent weeks, Nicholas Wade’s book A Troublesome Inheritance has been soundly criticized on the basis of his misunderstanding (or misrepresentation) of the statistical methods used to study human...
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Genetics professors unite in criticism of Nicholas Wade’s book.
In a series of recent posts I and several others have strongly criticized Nicholas Wade’s recent book “A Troublesome History”, which purports to show that human races are biologically meaningful...
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The Genetic Analysis of the Alaskan North Slope
My colleagues and I have just published a paper on the genetic diversity and population history of contemporary Iñupiat peoples (the indigenous inhabitants of the North Slope of Alaska) in the American...
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Genetic mythologies: “Nephilim DNA” from the Paracas skulls
As longtime readers here know, I’m endlessly fascinated by the ways in which people attempt to misuse genetics to legitimize pseudoscientific ideas. Today I’m going to write about one example which...
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How do scientists talk about race? For quite some time a small group of geneticists have been engaged in deep conversations about how best to convey the complexities of, and the relationship between...
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