1. donut says:

   November 16, 2015 at 12:01 am GMT

   Well I hope you went somewhere beautiful but I suppose you don’t care about that . After all you enjoyed your trip to B-More . You’re too focused on your profession . Anyway welcome back .

   
2. Bryan Bell says: • Website

   November 16, 2015 at 1:18 am GMT

   Reader poll? I don’t know of any since you moved to unz.com
3. Hokie says:

   November 16, 2015 at 1:25 am GMT • 100 Words

   I was at the Museum of the American Indian recently, and was struck at how white looking some of the US Indian chiefs were. Is it possible that the decrease in the amount of Melanesian/Andamanese-type ancestry in Amerindians from South to North is the results of European/African admixture being more common in North American Indians as compared to South American Indians? Or was that corrected for in the study?

   • Replies: @Jefferson

   @Hokie

   "I was at the Museum of the American Indian recently, and was struck at how white looking some of the US Indian chiefs were. Is it possible that the decrease in the amount of Melanesian/Andamanese-type ancestry in Amerindians from South to North is the results of European/African admixture being more common in North American Indians as compared to South American Indians? Or was that corrected for in the study?"

   The reason Caucasian phenotypes are common among Non Hispanic "Native Americans" but not in Hispanic Amerindians is because of the one drop rule. The U.S adopted it while Latin America did not. Also there are some faux Native Americans who have adopted Transracialism. If the blonde haired and blue eyed Elizabeth Warren were to travel to Bolivia for example and tell the Indigenous population there that she is racially an Indio just like they are, she would be a laughing stock. The Indios there tell her Gringa Blanca tu es loca.

   Replies: @dcite

   , @Pseudonymic Handle

   @Hokie

   Many Indian chiefs were descendents of whites or even whites.

   , @PD Shaw

   @Hokie

   (1) The density of Native Americans that survived European diseases following first encounters was higher in South America and Central Mexico. (2) Europeans were known to "go native," particularly when attracted to less hierarchical social structures.

4. Jefferson says:

   November 16, 2015 at 1:39 am GMT • 200 Words

   @Hokie

   I was at the Museum of the American Indian recently, and was struck at how white looking some of the US Indian chiefs were. Is it possible that the decrease in the amount of Melanesian/Andamanese-type ancestry in Amerindians from South to North is the results of European/African admixture being more common in North American Indians as compared to South American Indians? Or was that corrected for in the study?

   Replies: @Jefferson, @Pseudonymic Handle, @PD Shaw

   “I was at the Museum of the American Indian recently, and was struck at how white looking some of the US Indian chiefs were. Is it possible that the decrease in the amount of Melanesian/Andamanese-type ancestry in Amerindians from South to North is the results of European/African admixture being more common in North American Indians as compared to South American Indians? Or was that corrected for in the study?”

   The reason Caucasian phenotypes are common among Non Hispanic “Native Americans” but not in Hispanic Amerindians is because of the one drop rule. The U.S adopted it while Latin America did not. Also there are some faux Native Americans who have adopted Transracialism. If the blonde haired and blue eyed Elizabeth Warren were to travel to Bolivia for example and tell the Indigenous population there that she is racially an Indio just like they are, she would be a laughing stock. The Indios there tell her Gringa Blanca tu es loca.

   • Replies: @dcite

   @Jefferson

   The Mandans in the mid-western plains, were often brown haired and light eyed. A German painter visiting America, depicted groups of them. Most died of disease before the late 1800s. The Indians of the mid-Atlantic area (Pocahantas territory) were said by contemporary Europeans to be similar to the English in phenotype except for the darker complexion. Those Indians are all gone or mixed now. I'm not a genetics expert, but imo, there's something to the claims that Phoenicians (and god knows who else) sailed over here centuries before our anti-hero, Columbus.

5. Anonymous • Disclaimer says:

   November 16, 2015 at 2:52 am GMT

   http://www.livescience.com/52783-incan-child-mummy-genome.html

   thoughts?
6. Pseudonymic Handle says:

   November 16, 2015 at 3:04 am GMT

   @Hokie

   I was at the Museum of the American Indian recently, and was struck at how white looking some of the US Indian chiefs were. Is it possible that the decrease in the amount of Melanesian/Andamanese-type ancestry in Amerindians from South to North is the results of European/African admixture being more common in North American Indians as compared to South American Indians? Or was that corrected for in the study?

   Replies: @Jefferson, @Pseudonymic Handle, @PD Shaw

   Many Indian chiefs were descendents of whites or even whites.
7. PD Shaw says:

   November 16, 2015 at 3:07 pm GMT

   @Hokie

   I was at the Museum of the American Indian recently, and was struck at how white looking some of the US Indian chiefs were. Is it possible that the decrease in the amount of Melanesian/Andamanese-type ancestry in Amerindians from South to North is the results of European/African admixture being more common in North American Indians as compared to South American Indians? Or was that corrected for in the study?

   Replies: @Jefferson, @Pseudonymic Handle, @PD Shaw

   (1) The density of Native Americans that survived European diseases following first encounters was higher in South America and Central Mexico. (2) Europeans were known to “go native,” particularly when attracted to less hierarchical social structures.
8. Anonymous • Disclaimer says:

   November 17, 2015 at 2:02 pm GMT • 100 Words

   From UK Daily Mail (11/16/15): Why dogs will eat anything, but cats are fussy: Study reveals felines are more sensitive to bitter tastes

   Study found that cats posses 12 genes for sensing bitter tastes
   Bitter taste in foods often warns of poisonous plants and unripe fruits
   Research suggests cats are more sensitive to bitter than dogs
9. Anonymous • Disclaimer says:

   November 17, 2015 at 2:05 pm GMT

   My HMTL link to the Daily Mail article in my last post didn’t work. Here’s the link:

   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3321192/Why-dogs-eat-cats-fussy-Study-reveals-felines-sensitive-bitter-tastes.html
10. donut says:

    November 19, 2015 at 2:22 am GMT • 100 Words

    I asked you this back in May but you never answered do you have an answer or is the question not worth your time ?

    Hey , Razib , I’ve got a question . What’s the most complicated form of writing in the world today ? And what’s the most complicated there has ever been ? Is there any correlation between a complicated form of writing and IQ ? Does learning to write change the wiring in the brain and thereby effect IQ ? I read a news release a while ago that in Finland they were going to stop teaching hand writing to elementary school students and just teach them to type . Do you think that will effect IQ ?
11. RW says:

    November 21, 2015 at 2:01 pm GMT

    If anyone knows of an article within the last three or four years, preferably peer reviewed, that gives an overview of SNPs/genes to date found to be associated with mental traits, I’d be grateful if you could point me towards it.
12. Christopher says:

    November 22, 2015 at 2:54 am GMT • 200 Words

    Does anybody with more knowledge with neuroscience have any thoughts on this new study, which has gone through the general press as ‘disproving biological sex differences’? From the abstract it seems more modest in its claims, as usual with grandous claims in the in non-specialist media.

    Abstract
    The prevalence, age of onset, and symptomatology of many neuropsychiatric conditions differ between males and females. To understand the causes and consequences of sex differences it is important to establish where they occur in the human brain. We report the first meta-analysis of typical sex differences on global brain volume, a descriptive account of the breakdown of studies of each compartmental volume by six age categories, and whole-brain voxel-wise meta-analyses on brain volume and density. Gaussian-process regression coordinate-based meta-analysis was used to examine sex differences in voxel-based regional volume and density. On average, males have larger total brain volumes than females. Examination of the breakdown of studies providing total volumes by age categories indicated a bias towards the 18–59 year-old category. Regional sex differences in volume and tissue density include the amygdala, hippocampus and insula, areas known to be implicated in sex-biased neuropsychiatric conditions. Together, these results suggest candidate regions for investigating the asymmetric effect that sex has on the developing brain, and for understanding sex-biased neurological and psychiatric conditions.
13. dcite says:

    November 23, 2015 at 1:16 am GMT • 100 Words

    @Jefferson

    @Hokie

    "I was at the Museum of the American Indian recently, and was struck at how white looking some of the US Indian chiefs were. Is it possible that the decrease in the amount of Melanesian/Andamanese-type ancestry in Amerindians from South to North is the results of European/African admixture being more common in North American Indians as compared to South American Indians? Or was that corrected for in the study?"

    The reason Caucasian phenotypes are common among Non Hispanic "Native Americans" but not in Hispanic Amerindians is because of the one drop rule. The U.S adopted it while Latin America did not. Also there are some faux Native Americans who have adopted Transracialism. If the blonde haired and blue eyed Elizabeth Warren were to travel to Bolivia for example and tell the Indigenous population there that she is racially an Indio just like they are, she would be a laughing stock. The Indios there tell her Gringa Blanca tu es loca.

    Replies: @dcite

    The Mandans in the mid-western plains, were often brown haired and light eyed. A German painter visiting America, depicted groups of them. Most died of disease before the late 1800s. The Indians of the mid-Atlantic area (Pocahantas territory) were said by contemporary Europeans to be similar to the English in phenotype except for the darker complexion. Those Indians are all gone or mixed now. I’m not a genetics expert, but imo, there’s something to the claims that Phoenicians (and god knows who else) sailed over here centuries before our anti-hero, Columbus.

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