Racial Reality

Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) is a genetic component that traveled mainly east into Native Americans, but also west into Europeans. It's represented by pre-historic individuals discovered in Siber...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-north-eurasians-from-siberia.html

Afrocentrists claim that Phoenicians and Moors were black, but most of these ancient samples from colonies in Iberia are a mix of North African, Levantine and Southern European (Local Iberian), c...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2020/08/phoenicians-moors-caucasoid.html

We've seen how olive skin is misunderstood by people to mean "tan" or "non-white", now let's look at the same thing with words like "dark" and "swarthy" used to describe the complexions of Europe...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2020/07/dark-swarthy-europeans-are-still-light.html

Until a few years ago, people thought that Northern Europeans were descended from indigenous Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, and Southern Europeans from more recent Neolithic farmers from the Middl...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2019/12/whos-really-more-european.html

Google finally restored my Italianthro account: https://italianthro.blogspot.com/ I'll leave the new blog online but hidden from search engines and with comments disabled. If anything ever happen...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2019/11/italianthro-restored.html

Google disabled my Italianthro account and locked me out of it. I think it might be related to this widespread issue (which Google isn't doing shit to fix) but I never found out for sure because ...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2019/11/italian-anthropology-2.html

Ancient DNA has confirmed that Ancient Egyptians were Middle Eastern and not Sub-Saharan African. This was already suggested by earlier genetic studies that found North Africans were the result o...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2019/10/ancient-egyptians-nubians-caucasoid.html

The ancestry of British actress Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh and Irish, but people keep claiming she's part Greek, and it was just repeated in a Jeopardy question. The source is an old CNN inter...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2019/07/catherine-zeta-jones-is-not-greek.html

Most people either think that "olive" skin tone is the same as "tan" or "dark", or that it refers to some kind of "nonwhite" or "mixed" ethnicity ranging from the Mediterranean region to Latin Am...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2019/06/what-olive-skinned-really-means.html

A new book and a new study on ancient DNA both say that the homeland of Indo-European languages was most likely south of the Caucasus Mountains in the Near East, and not in the Russian Steppe fro...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2018/05/indo-europeans-likely-from-near-east.html

This was already suggested a few years back by Farrell et al. (2013) and Shi Yan et al. (2013), and now a new study is saying the same thing again. Background: After three decades of mtDNA studie...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2018/01/eurasian-origin-back-migration-l3-de.html

Greek women through the ages: Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean, Classical, Modern  (SOURCE) A recent study suggested based on modern samples that Greeks hadn't changed much since ancient times. N...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2017/08/genetic-continuity-in-greece.html

A 3,500-year-old noble Egyptian called Nebiri has been brought back to life through modern forensics. Scientists have reconstructed the face of the ancient mummy, and discovered he had a prominen...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2017/07/reconstruction-of-an-ancient-egyptian.html

This new study refutes Nordicist and Afrocentrist claims of population replacement in Ancient Greece, showing that modern Peloponnesean Greeks are most closely related to other Southern Europeans...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2017/04/genetics-of-peloponnesean-greeks.html

Nordicists have often claimed that Iron Age Scythians were blonde, blue-eyed "Aryans" most similar to modern Northern Europeans, but ancient DNA analysis shows they were a mix of Yamnaya people f...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2017/03/scythians-had-east-asian-ancestry.html

This is a talk that will be given at the 82nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Vancouver, BC, Canada from March 29–April 2, 2017. New genome-wide data show that Ancient...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2017/03/first-ancient-egyptian-genomes.html

This new ancient DNA study refutes the Afrocentrist claim that Natufians were from Sub-Saharan Africa or had Negroid admixture. Craniometric analyses have suggested that the Natufians may have mi...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2016/06/natufians-not-sub-saharan-african.html

Europeans are descended from prehistoric hunter-gatherers and farmers. Here's what we know about the origins and physical appearance of these two populations from anthropology (Coon 1939, Pinhasi...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2015/03/phenotypes-of-hunters-and-farmers.html

AIMs are a subset of SNPs chosen for their informativeness about ancestry and often used by geneticists instead of genome-wide data to save time and money. However, according to Galanter et al. (...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2014/09/aims-overestimate-admixture.html

According to a new genetic study, Ashkenazi Jews are mostly European on their maternal side, and that admixture comes from Western and Central Europe when diaspora males from the Levant arrived f...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2014/03/european-ancestry-of-ashkenazi-jews.html

This new study confirms everything that Afrocentrists deny about Caucasoid admixture in East (and South) Africa. Back-to-Africa Gene Flow in Eastern Africa A major open question concerns the init...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2014/02/semitic-west-eurasian-ancestry-in-africa.html

This new study has one of the biggest global admixture analyses ever done (185 populations at 293,832 SNPs), but it's a little hard to view so I made a more user friendly version of one of the ru...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2013/12/global-admixture-analysis-at-k6.html

JayMan is an HBd blogger obsessed with IQ, heredity and achievement, and probably Richard Lynn's #1 fan. He claims to be Jamaican, which makes him either the most insanely self-hating black perso...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2013/11/calling-out-jayman.html

The latest evidence suggests that two major haplogroups long considered African actually arose in Asia and then back-migrated to Africa. The presence of the L haplogroup common in Africa was unex...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2013/10/haplogroups-l3-and-e-asian-not-african.html

Poverty and all its related concerns require so much mental energy that the poor have less remaining brainpower to devote to other areas of life, according to research based at Princeton Universi...

http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2013/09/poverty-lowers-iq.html