You've probably seen the recent Scott Alexander discussion about heritability, with comments from key players and commentators in the field, but if not: Scott Alexander: Missing Heritability: Much More Than…
For months, some journalist called Ashley Smart has been emailing me for quotes for some upcoming hit piece. E.g., back form January: Hi Emil, I'm a journalist with Undark Magazine, and…
My book review of Michael Ryan's book briefly covered this topic but due to popular interest, here is a full post. Famously, there was a genocide in Rwanda in the…
Joseph Henrich published two books based on the Hajnal line or WEIRD (Western Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) personality cluster idea (The Secret of Our Success 2016; The WEIRDest People in…
If you haven't seen my new article about the new David Reich lab ancient genomes results in Aporia magazine yet, head over there now: Overwhelming evidence of recent evolution in…
David Reich's team has a new kickass preprint out: Akbari, A., Barton, A. R., Gazal, S., Li, Z., Kariminejad, M., Perry, A., ... & Reich, D. (2024). Pervasive findings of…
My recent blogpost about Africans propensity to violence got some attention. In the post I noted that direct evidence was mostly missing. I've done some further reading, and discovered that…
There's a new study out of note: Xia, R., Jian, X., Rodrigue, A. L., Bressler, J., Boerwinkle, E., Cui, B., ... & Fornage, M. (2024). Admixture mapping of cognitive function…
There's a new study out making the rounds, but first I want to divert and ask: Who invented admixture regression? Here I mean the analysis where admixture (ancestry) estimates of…
A few days ago, geneticist Shai Carmi posted a new study on Twitter. And then he deleted his tweet and reposted a "I disavow" version. Well, what happened is that…