Hispaniolan craniometry
I can't resist blogging this one. First, so it doesn't get lost, and second because it's scientifically interesting. Right now, Haiti is in the news due to social failure and…
I can't resist blogging this one. First, so it doesn't get lost, and second because it's scientifically interesting. Right now, Haiti is in the news due to social failure and…
Davide Piffer and I have a new study out: Piffer, D., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2024). Evolutionary Trends of Polygenic Scores in European Populations From the Paleolithic to Modern…
If you follow population genetics on Twitter, you may have seen the current thing to be concerned about. For instance, we have Jonathan Pritchard at Stanford: https://twitter.com/jkpritch/status/1759769445759893832 And Graham Coop…
We just published a new study in OpenPsych: Hu, M., Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Fuerst, J. (2023). Income and Education Disparities Track Genetic Ancestry. OpenPsych, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.26775/OP.2023.09.11 Structural racism…
As announced late August, here is the promised discussion with Davide Piffer on ancient genomics: where we are, and where we hope to go. 1 hour and 7 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XbrzSfEz4…
I am in Italy together with Davide Piffer. We will be filming a conversation about ancient genomes and group differences. Please post your questions below so we can cover them…
Probably the most common objection to studies of polygenic scores for education/intelligence for race differences is that the polygenic scores are less valid for non-European populations. For instance, here's a…
Men vary more than women in most phenotypes we can measure, including intelligence. Inquisitive Bird has a summary of the intelligence findings here. Thöni & Volk 2021 provide a nice…
We have a new study out: Piffer, D., Dutton, E., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Intelligence Trends in Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of Roman Polygenic Scores. OpenPsych,…
Back in 2021, Russell Warne wrote a nice summary article about race differences in intelligence: Warne, R. T. (2021). Between-group mean differences in intelligence in the United States are> 0%…