Italian north-south genetic differences confirmed
Davide Piffer and Richard Lynn has a new study out: Piffer, D., & Lynn, R. (2022). In Italy, North-South Differences in Student Performance Are Mirrored by Differences in Polygenic Scores…
New study out: Admixture and Social Status in Chile
The new June issue of Mankind Quarterly is out, and naturally it features a paper of mine: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2022). Admixture and Social Status in Chile. Mankind Quarterly,…
Ancient eugenics confirmed
I've written many times about the current dysgenic selection in humans, where evolution seems to be going the wrong way according to our preferences. Specifically, after the industrial revolution, the…
The genetics of mental illness
In popular discourse and the media, the debate is between those who recognize significant genetic causation in mental illnesses versus the status quo blank slate people who leave all such…
What have we learned from the 2022 education GWAS?
Okbay, A., Wu, Y., Wang, N., Jayashankar, H., Bennett, M., Nehzati, S. M., ... & Young, A. I. (2022). Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide…
Loving your family members too much
Most people know that married couples tend to be more similar than expected by chance for many attributes whether age, race, politics, intelligence, personality, music taste and so on. This…
Science Outside The Overton Window – Interview with Alexandra Kaschuta
I had a fun chat with Alexandra Kaschuta, a very unusual Romanian woman. Hope you enjoy! I chat to rogue researcher Emil Kirkegaard about the fraught intersection between intelligence research…
Secular genetic-phenotype paradoxes: the Flynn effect and beyond
The Flynn effect is famously the result that IQ scores seem to keep going up. That is, at least, they did so from 1917 until 2010 or so (when decline…
Book review: David Sinclair – Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To (2019)
David A. Sinclair - Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To, 2019 (free ebook is on libgen) I know Scott Alexander has already reviewed this, but since I…
Basics on hereditarian thinking about genotypic means
Recently I got a private question from anon: A quick question if you don't mind: how come Blacks from sub-Saharan Africa have an average IQ of 70, which is even…
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