Posted by Englander on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:57 | #

For relative newcomers to the Right, what marked 2005?

Posted by Al Ross on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:58 | #

Same to you, GW and thank you for your yeoman-style efforts during 2007.

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:25 | #

Thanks Al - you too.

Englander, four sizeable events marked 2005, described here.

Posted by Iamtheflaw on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:03 | #

Happy new year to you and the rest of MR, GW. The thaw is beginning and the Anti-White Witches’ reign nears its end!

Are there genetic differences between “races”?

Mark Pagel, evolutionary biologist at Reading University. His research includes work on language and cultural evolution.

“Flawed as the old ideas about race are, modern genomic studies reveal a surprising, compelling and different picture of human genetic diversity. We are on average about 99.5% similar to each other genetically. This is a new figure, down from the previous estimate of 99.9%. To put what may seem like minuscule differences in perspective, we are somewhere around 98.5% similar, maybe more, to chimpanzees, our nearest evolutionary relatives.

“The new figure for us, then, is significant. It derives from among other things, many small genetic differences that have emerged from studies that compare human populations ... Like it or not, there may be many genetic differences among human populations - including differences that may even correspond to old categories of “race” - that are real differences in the sense of making one group better than another at responding to some particular environmental problem.

“This in no way says one group is in general “superior” to another ... But it warns us that we must be prepared to discuss genetic differences among human populations.

Are humans still evolving?

Steven Pinker, leading psychologist and language expert at Harvard University. Author of The Language Instinct and The Blank Slate.

“I’ve had to question the overall assumption that human evolution pretty much stopped by the time of the agricultural revolution ... New [laboratory] results have suggested that thousands of genes, perhaps as much as 10% of the human genome, have been under strong recent selection, and the selection may even have accelerated during the past several thousand years ... If these results hold up, and apply to psychologically relevant brain function ... then the field of evolutionary psychology might have to reconsider the simplifying assumption that biological evolution was pretty much over and done with 10-000-50,000 years ago.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/01/sciencenews.evolution

Posted by In-Like-Flynn on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:14 | #

Thanks for the link to that Gruaniad article Iamtheflaw. The thing that struck me was that nothing there seems to be very groundbreaking in the sex, race and genetics fields. Their just going back to old ideas that were prevalent before the jews got stuck in spreading their “we’re all equal” BS.

This is a great site, now in my “daily reads” folder.

And happy new year to everyone.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:45 | #

Happy New Year one and all!  And to GW, in addition, go warmest thanks for all his hard work, his always insightful, enlightening discussions, and his unwavering commitment!  And by the way, congratulations too, on having created one the internet’s best, most important web-sites!

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:44 | #

You’re welcome, Fred.

Posted by ben tillman on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:59 | #

A happy new year to you, and thank you for your efforts, GW.

Posted by ausnewright on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:40 | #

Yes, down here it certainly was a quiet year too. The highlights perhaps being Tom Sunic speaking in Sydney, 30 members of the balaclava clad New Right gate crashing a Commie march and the biggest Animal Rights organisation in the country being cut off from the Left for being “racist” - and not backing down, unlike Mr Morrissey(again).

2008 just has to be more interesting.

Posted by Scipio Americanus on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:29 | #

GW—Please accept my belated thanks and my sincere wish for a successful and productive 2008!

Posted by Marge O'Brien on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:05 | #

There’s no excuse for the pornography.  No one here needed that repulsive image thrust before their eyes.  Whoever posted it is no one who I feel the slightest common cause with.  I believe it to be the act of someone hostile to majority rights issues, someone who wanted to offend our sensibilities.

He did offend mine, and so, since GW has chosen to allow it to be here, I’ll leave.

MOB

Posted by Attention GW on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:48 | #

“He did offend mine, and so, since GW has chosen to allow it to be here, I’ll leave.”

I hope the explanation for it is: It just got past the editing-eye of GW?

Posted by Extra on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:01 | #

The teenager who posted the porn will be delighted to have got a reaction, because there will be nothing else going on in his life. That’s why stuff like that should just be removed silently by MR without comment from anyone else. As it is, I’ll say that I found the porn and its poster invoking pity rather than repulsion.

Posted by Guessedworker on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:09 | #

OK,

My British ISP stripped out the link posted above, and which is now deleted.  So I couldn’t see it.  This also occurred when Razib Khan put his porn re-route on links from MR to GNXP.  I never saw the re-route, though just about everybody else did.

If the image re-appears I may not be the first to know!  So please alert me.

Apologies for not dealing with that immediately.

Posted by skeptical on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:02 | #

Happy New Year to the bright souls behind MR!