Fake news on James Watson’s DNA
Some readers might remember back in 2007, it was widely reported that Chad James Watson has African ancestry: New York Times: DNA Pioneer’s Genome Blurs Race Lines A new analysis…
Soviet and East German era (DDR/GDR) twin studies
I cover these here mainly because they are not widely known, and relate to ongoing discussions about the generalizability of twin estimates across time and space. To put things into…
The fire brigade: Ewan Birney to the rescue
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1265724131112357888 Ewan Birney, "Director of EMBL-EBI with an insatiable love of biology; small research group on genomics research.". He earlier embarrased himself by writing a zero-sources, full of errors pseudoscientific…
Mainstreamers keep making progress: educational attainment variation “likely” caused by ancestry variation in Europe
Lawson, D. J., Davies, N. M., Haworth, S., Ashraf, B., Howe, L., Crawford, A., ... & Timpson, N. J. (2020). Is population structure in the genetic biobank era irrelevant, a…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41525-018-0075-2
Population genetic variation and trait variation: not strongly related
In a Gelman-like approach to turning email replies into posts. Someone sent me this email: Thanks for answering this and the other email, and the links as well. I am…
Species genetic variation and number of subspecies/races/breeds/breeding populations/clusters etc.
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.…
New paper out: Human Biodiversity for Beginners: A Review of Charles Murray’s Human Diversity
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…
Sesardić’s conjecture: preliminary evidence in favor
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…
IVF tech by country: historical growth
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,…
Predicting IQ from genetics: how far have we come? [January 2020]
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…
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