Using 23andMe African Ancestry Data to Reexamine the History of Slavery
The effects of the forced deportation of over 10 million African people during the transatlantic slave trade remain entrenched in the DNA of people from…
Demography
Email Data Reveals Global Migration Trends
By analyzing the countries derived from IP addresses for a set of messages sent by 43 million anonymous Yahoo! account holders between September 2009 and…
Birth Ratios Skew Towards More Females During Famine
In China, during the Chinese Great Leap Forward famine, the male to female birth ratios fell significantly. This implies that whenever food is in short…