Review: The Roma: A Balkan Underclass (Jelena Cvorovic)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23621169-the-roma Richard Lynn is so nice to periodically send me books for free. He is working on establishing his publisher, of course, and so needs media coverage. In this case,…

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Review: Is there anything good about men? (Roy F. Baumeister)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8765372-is-there-anything-good-about-men http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=B21C5698CE12510CDEDBE940259BDF6F If you read the original essay, there is not much to recommend about the book. It taught me very little, has no data tables, no plots, no figures.…

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Bouchard’s new review paper on Genes, Evolution, Intelligence is excellent!

Seriously. Read it. Behavior Genetics (Impact Factor: 2.61). 03/2014; DOI: 10.1007/s10519-014-9646-x Source: PubMed ABSTRACT I argue that the g factor meets the fundamental criteria of a scientific construct more fully than…

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The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (David P. Barash, Judith Eve Lipton)

This book is fairly short and is mostly about sexual selection and sexual antagonism. While other EP lit. uses animal examples, this book is literally full of them. Lots of…

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Prediction: Good dating sites of the future will use genomic data to select partners with matching MHC

Prediction: Good dating sites of the future will use genomic data to select partners with matching MHC. The idea is obvious. Genomic sequencing prices will fall. People will have copies…

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Review: Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists (Barkow ed.)

[Jerome_H._Barkow]_Missing_the_Revolution_Darwini(Bookos.org) In general, this was a short and interesting read. Made me want to read other material by Anne Campbell. The last chapter is skipable, just as Kanazawa said when…

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