Everywhere you look these days the population genetics folks are talking about three populations. Wait, what? I must have missed something. I thought there were only two populations in Europe. The older hunter gatherers who were the original population from the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age, and the newer invaders who overran them in the…
From an upcoming paper on genetics. This should be headline news:
From an upcoming paper on genetics. This should be headline news:
Was it possible to be an atheist in the days before the Enlightenment?
Was it possible to be an atheist in the days before the Enlightenment?
Scots in Colonial New England
So often we equate New England almost exclusively with the English. Of course, there were Dutch in Manhattan, Swedes in Delaware, Germans and Welsh in Pennsylvania, but New England was the English. Right? Mostly, but there were also a few Scots here and there. Maybe most notably some Scots taken prisoner by English and deported…
Second Sight
I think everyone knows what it means when someone has the second sight. Collins Dictionary says, “If you say that someone has second sight, you mean that they seem to have the ability to know or see things that are going to happen in the future, or are happening in a different place.“ A cool thing…