Racial Reality Blog

Old Comments Are Gone

2009-12-16T14:12:00.000Z

HaloScan's free commenting service is being discontinued before the end of the year, and users have been given the option of upgrading to a new paid service or exporting their comments for use elsewhere. I've opted for the latter. Unfortunately, Blogger doesn't provide any way of importing them. Maybe that'll change in the future, but for now I'm afraid they're gone. (You can download the archive

Another Feeble Attack on FORDISC

2009-12-09T14:03:00.000Z

The FORDISC computer program used for classifying unknown human crania has been at the center of a debate about its reliability. In 2005 the program's creators responded to criticism, setting the record straight. Now a new study is launching yet another attack. The authors' conclusion, based on tests they conducted, makes the following two points: FORDISC will only return a correct ancestry

Scientists Call for End to Race-Denial

2009-11-24T14:22:00.000Z

Let's celebrate human genetic diversity Bruce Lahn and Lanny Ebenstein Nature, 8 October 2009 Science is finding evidence of genetic diversity among groups of people as well as among individuals. This discovery should be embraced, not feared, say Bruce T. Lahn and Lanny Ebenstein. A growing body of data is revealing the nature of human genetic diversity at increasingly finer resolution. It is

Foreigners in Ancient Rome

2009-10-23T11:30:00.000+01:00

According to the book Foreigners at Rome: Citizens and Strangers by David Noy (London: Duckworth, 2000), the main sources of foreigners in Ancient Rome were Gaul and Hispania, Central and Eastern Europe, Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Jews (p. 205 ff.). However, it seems that most of those from outside of Europe were ethnically Greek, while Jews never fully assimilated into

AnthroScape Re-Launch

2008-12-01T12:28:00.000Z

AnthroScape: Human Biodiversity Forum has reopened. We sincerely apologize for the long delay and hope that you'll join us again. For more information, please begin by reading this topic:http://s1.zetaboards.com/anthroscape/topic/920112/Thank you.

AnthroScape: Human Biodiversity Forum

2008-04-05T13:41:00.000+01:00

AnthroScape is a new biological and social anthropology forum that picks up where the defunct Dodona left off. Please begin by reading the Mission Statement and Forum Rules.http://www.anthroscape.co.cc/We look forward to seeing you there!

Dinaric Alps Home to Tallest Europeans

2007-10-06T12:42:00.000+01:00

Average height of adolescents in the Dinaric Alps Pineau et al. (2005) C R Biol ABSTRACT: This study contributes to an update of average heights among European populations. Our investigation covering 2705 boys and 2842 girls aged 17 years, shows that, contrary to the general belief, adolescents of the Dinaric Alps are, on average, the tallest in Europe. With an average height of 185.6 cm, they

Nazi Poster Boy Was Jewish

2007-09-04T14:34:00.000+01:00

The secret history of the Nazi mascot By Nick BryantBBC News, MelbourneTuesday, 21 August 2007In newsreels, he was paraded as 'the Reich's youngest Nazi' and he witnessed some unspeakable atrocities.But his SS masters never discovered the most essential detail about his life: their little Nazi mascot was Jewish."They didn't know that I was a Jewish boy who had escaped a Nazi death squad. They

Prognathism and Facial Flatness

2007-08-04T14:11:00.000+01:00

This study compares facial characteristics of 112 ancient, medieval and modern populations from around the world. The basic finding is that prognathism (jaw protrusion) is associated with Austro-Melanesians and sub-Saharan Africans, and facial flatness with East Asians, while Europeans, West Asians and North Africans (Caucasoids) generally lack both of these features. Frontal and Facial

Women in Art

2007-06-18T14:34:00.000+01:00

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western ArtThis is a neat little survey of European aesthetics over the centuries that shows famous paintings morphing into one another chronologically. The music is Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 performed by Yo-Yo Ma.Link

Biologists Take Definitive Stance in "Race Debate"

2007-01-23T14:21:00.004Z

This paper was even written up in the New York Times (with obligatory "opposing view" that doesn't amount to much). Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease Neil Risch, Esteban Burchard, Elad Ziv, and Hua Tang Genome Biology, 2002 EXCERPT: With this as background, it is not surprising that numerous human population genetic studies have come to the identical

Dante Reconstruction

2007-01-13T14:00:00.000Z

The scientists seem to think their reconstructed bust of Italian Renaissance poet Dante Alighieri looks very different from popular conceptions, but it looks pretty close to me, especially considering that most portraits of him were made after he died, and his "death masks" are likely fakes (i.e. sculptures). Also, he appears older in the reconstruction, which would be accompanied by a softening

Demographic Impact of Roman Slavery Re-evaluated

2006-12-22T13:34:00.000Z

Excerpt from:Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republicby Nathan RosensteinCopyright (c) 2004 by the University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved.Recent studies of Italian demography have further increased doubts about a rapid expansion of the peninsula's servile population in this era. No direct evidence exists for the number of slaves in Italy at any time.[39]

Italian Facial Composites

2006-10-06T14:25:00.000+01:00

Here's a comparison of young male, female and older male phenotypes from Northern and Southern Italy. For the latter two, where there were a lot of image series to choose from, Sicily was selected to represent the south because it's the southernmost region as well as the most maligned, and Veneto was used for the north because it's a populous region that's much less likely than Lombardy or

Caucasoid Phenotypic Variation

2006-09-11T13:59:00.000+01:00

Taking a cue from Dienekes, I used morphing software and available photos of national soccer teams to assess the average phenotypes of Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Greater Middle East, and finally Caucasoids as a whole. Here are the results: [ Click images to enlarge ] From these images we can confirm much of what's already known about Caucasoids: 1) Swedes and

Race and Ethnicity Gallery

2006-07-29T13:40:00.000+01:00

Collection of photo series depicting people of different races and ethnicities from various walks of life. In each series, concerted effort has been made to exclude individuals with backgrounds other than that stated. Corrections and suggestions are welcome.http://racialreality.shorturl.com/gallery.htmlI hope to add more galleries in the future. If anyone has any ideas (and more importantly

Free science coming to the web?

2006-05-04T13:58:00.000+01:00

TECH CHRONICLESSan Francisco ChronicleFriday, April 28, 2006European report calls for 'free science'The London Guardian reports that a European Commission study is calling for the free dissemination of government-funded science research over the Internet.To boil down a complex issue, scientists must publish or perish, and their journals are now owned by a few large companies. This has led to

Study Clarification IV

2006-01-27T14:07:00.000Z

Here's the latest paper being paraded around by Nordicists and Afrocentrists, who, as usual, haven't bothered to look beyond a couple of passages they find favorable. STUDY: Genetic analysis of a Sicilian population using 15 short tandem repeats Calo et al. (2003) Hum Biol Link to Full Text MISUSED QUOTES: Other authors, studying classical markers (Piazza et al. 1988; Cavalli-Sforza and

Skin Reflectance of Selected World Populations

2006-01-09T14:06:00.000Z

All samples are composed of indigenous populations, and readings are taken on areas of the body not exposed to the sun. Higher values indicate lighter skin, and lower values darker skin. Country and population or area Observed reflectance at 685 nm EUROPE Netherlands 67•37

Original Pigmentation of Hominids

2006-01-03T13:34:00.000Z

What skin color was primitive for the hominid lineage?Before questions about changes in integumentary pigmentation in modern human evolution can be addressed, consideration must be given to the probable primitive condition of the integument in the earliest members of the human lineage. It is likely that the integument of the earliest protohominids was similar to that of our closest living

AAA Statement on Race

2005-12-07T13:18:00.000Z

In 1998, the American Anthropological Association issued an official statement declaring that clearly demarcated, biological races don't exist, which is supposed to represent "the contemporary thinking and scholarly positions of a majority of anthropologists". This irresponsible exercise in PC pandering is constantly cited by uninformed people looking to discredit the reality of race. Here are

Caucasoid Affinities of Somalis

2005-11-20T13:36:00.000Z

It's been well documented that Ethiopians share a substantial amount of their ancestry with Western Eurasians (Caucasoids), but less talked about is the similar position of Somalis. These findings have led researchers to reject recent admixture as a primary explanation, and posit that such elements are indigenous to East Africa.Anthropology"When the nonadaptive aspects of craniofacial

'Star Wars' Stereotypes

2005-11-12T12:54:00.000Z

Amusing Flash page parodying the ethnically questionable characters from the most recent Star Wars trilogy:http://www.flakmag.com/flash/swdvd.html

Most Violent Countries

2005-09-21T13:47:00.000+01:00

Scotland tops list of world's most violent countriesBy Katrina TweedieTimes OnlineSeptember 19, 2005A UNITED Nations report has labelled Scotland the most violent country in the developed world, with people three times more likely to be assaulted than in America.England and Wales recorded the second highest number of violent assaults while Northern Ireland recorded the fewest.The study, based on

Argentinean Italians Are Mostly Southern

2005-09-09T14:15:00.000+01:00

Migration from Southern Italy to Argentina: Calabrians and Sicilians (1880-1930) Cacopardo et al. (1990) Studi Emigr ABSTRACT: The study analyzes Italian emigration to Argentina from Sicily and Calabria between 1880-1930, compared with out-migration flows from Piedmont. The concepts of cultural patrimony and of migratory strategy are used to measure the different potentials and job