Tag: Jeffrey C. Long

  • White? Black? A Murky Distinction Grows Still Murkier The New York Times 2014-12-24 Carl Zimmer In 1924, the State of Virginia attempted to define what it means to be white. The state’s Racial Integrity Act, which barred marriages between whites and people of other races, defined whites as people “whose blood is entirely white, having…

  • Human Genetic Diversity and the Nonexistence of Biological Races Human Biology Volume 75, Number 4, August 2003 pages 449-471 Rich Kittles, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Illinois, Chicago Jeffrey C. Long, Professor of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Sewall Wright’s population structure statistic, FST, measured among samples of world…

  • The Genetic Structure of Admixed Populations Genetics February 1, 1991 Volume 127, Number 2 pages 417–428 Jeffrey C. Long, Professor of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque A method for simultaneously estimating the admixture proportions of a hybrid population and Wright’s fixation index, FST, for that hybrid is presented. It is shown that the variance…