Evo and Proud

Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation

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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn RIP

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn passed away on Monday. He was one of several writers who have truly touched me (George Parkin Grant was another). His...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Lewontin's Fallacy?

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Turning to race, we must begin with the fraught question of whether it even exists, or whether it is instead a social construct. The Harvard...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

More genetic variation within than between?

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Research in human genetics has highlighted that there is more genetic variation within than between human groups, where those groups are def...
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Women's hair color. It doesn't pay to be average

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Gene expression has run a second post on blonde preference . This time the analysis is based on the front covers of Maxim magazine, whose r...
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The Rise of the Blonde Playmate

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Gene Expression has a post on changing preferences for hair color over time . The hair color of Playboy playmates was charted from 1954 to ...
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The Big Bang of modern human evolution

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The Smithsonian magazine has an interesting article on the origin of modern humans and the events leading to their rapid spread ‘out of Afri...
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Maps of European hair and eye color

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A reader sent me the following e-mail: I want to ask you some questions regarding your maps . To be honest both maps look very questionable....
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Peter Frost
Anthropologist. I've published mainly on sexual dimorphism in human skin color and on the evolutionary origin of European hair and eye colors.
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