A straightforward research idea: Compare the recognized count of subspecies (races/breeds/breeding populations/clusters etc.) with measures of genetic variation. The most obvious is the Fst but it's not an optimal metric.…
Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2020). Human Biodiversity for Beginners: A Review of Charles Murray's Human Diversity. Mankind Quarterly, 60(3). Journal (gated) Human Diversity is Charles Murray’s latest book. This review…
In Making sense of Heritability (2005), Sesardić wrote: On the less obvious side, a nasty campaign against H could have the unintended effect of strengthening H [hereditarianism] epistemically, and making…
Some time ago, I made a plot of this that Steve Hsu ended up posting. However, here's a newer one. The public datafile is here. Latest published report is here,…
Counting significant hits was always a dumb way to measure progress in genomic prediction of a trait. Breeders using animals and plants never bothered with this approach and they used…
So, our big Scarr-Rowe meta-analysis dropped recently. I was traveling at the time, so there was a bit of a delay to this posting. I also recorded a long video…
Figlio, D. N., Freese, J., Karbownik, K., & Roth, J. (2017). Socioeconomic status and genetic influences on cognitive development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(51), 13441-13446. Accurate understanding…
Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2019). Race Differences: A Very Brief Review. Mankind Quarterly, 60:2 The nature of race differences, and even the mere “existence” of human races, continues to be…
See also previously: Environmentalists like admixture analysis too (until they don’t) Let's talk a little Bayesian statistics and how it applies to model selection in the race and IQ debate.…
Ewan Birney, Jennifer Raff, Adam Rutherford, Aylwyn Scally. Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer. Ewan's Blog: Bioinformatician at large. Additional remarks by Raff on her blog On Race, Genetics, and…