“Genes, Brains, and Intelligence: What’s New?” in AmRen
Jared asked me if I wanted to summarize recent work in the field, based on a new review article by Ian Deary, Simon R. Cox & W. David Hill. Well,…
FIGURE 1.6. Conventional versus surname estimates of status persistence.
Gregory Clark videos
Prior posts touching on Gregory Clark: What does money buy? Selected readings from lottery studies, Thinking about intergenerational stability of socioeconomic status Updated 2020-02-23: Actually, cancellation comes for Gregory Clark…
Recent evidence on dysgenic trends (February 2021)
A friend asked me to give him some pointers to the recent evidence on dysgenics, or the selection against valued traits. Challenge was accepted. This is not an exhaustive review.…
How closely related is your spouse?
I have written on the children produced by mixed-race couples before, and since it went so well, it's time to try again. Only this time, another angle: the parents themselves.…
The within-person design: a selective review
The within-person (or intra-individual or within‐individual or ...), design is a longitudinal design where we follow people over time as they change on some purported cause, and look at whether…
What’s in your genome? Free services for personal polygenic scores (impute.me tour)
Polygenic scores are all the rage. Naturally, you want to know your own scores, and you have a reading of your genome from some company. Unfortunately, the company doesn't provide…
Genetic editing in animals for profit: how far have we come in 2020?
Animal breeding, human breeding (2015) Recent reviews in animal breeding (2019) Breeder genomics is way ahead of human genomics. Whenever something can be and is done in animals, it takes…
Hereditarian predictions
Putting these in writing in a single place for ease of reference. Unfortunately, no one wrote down all these predictions some years ago to show they really were predictions, but…
Quantitative genetic and natural selection: 2018-2020 studies
There are many studies that look at signs for selection using large genomic datasets. This post provides a selective summary of such studies from 2018 to now, so very recent…
Beware small biases: the case of height
See prior post on self vs. other measurements of personality for a similar take. Height is the favorite trait in 'behavioral' genetics: it's easy, fast and cheap to measure, continuous…
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