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Review of John Glad’s “Jewish Eugenics”
Jewish Eugenics, by John Glad. Washington, DC: Wooden Shore Publishers, 2011; 464pp. (Downloadable at either www.whatwemaybe or www.woodenshore.org. These sites also have Glad’s Future Human...
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Who are the Jews?
Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People Harry Ostrer Oxford University Press: 2012 288pp., $24.95 Are Jews a religion or race? This is the age-old question that medical geneticist Harry Ostrer...
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Jewish population genetics and intelligence revisted
When I reviewed the data on Jewish population genetics for my 1994 book, A People That Shall Dwell Alone, the take home message was that Jews were a Middle Eastern group. But that was before the...
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Exponential growth of Ashkenazi Jews following a Medieval population bottleneck
A recent paper by Marta Costa et al. found that around 80% of Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA had a prehistoric European origin (and ruled out the Khazar hypothesis). Combined with previous Y chromosome...
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Ted Sallis: More Jewish Genetics: The "Weak Khazar Hypothesis"
Ted Sallis: An important new paper (free online; see here) has come out on Jewish population genetics. The populations used in this study are described as: The Middle Eastern populations included...
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Kevin MacDonald: A new study on Jewish genetics
Kevin MacDonald: Gil Atzmon and colleagues have come out with the largest study yet comparing Jewish and non-Jewish populations. (See here and here.) Ted Sallis will be coming out with a longer...
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Ted Sallis on Jewish genetics
Ted Sallis’s current TOO article makes a number of important points. First, the fact that Jews are most closely related to Northern Italians does not imply that this was due to conversion in the...
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Another Jewish Genetics Paper
Another paper has come out similar to the Atzmon work reviewed in my previous TOO paper. Having exhaustively examined Atzmon’s study, and seeing that the new Behar work (“The genome-wide structure of...
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