Wilson, R. S. (1976). Concordance in physical growth for monozygotic and dizygotic twins. Annals of Human Biology, 3(1), 1-10. Heights and weights were analysed for 636 twins who had been…
Few people actually read this, which is a shame because the science is interesting for historical purposes, and the fulltext of his famous fallacy is rarely read. I believe this…
Antonio Regalado is providing us with a recent series of the arguably best informed (compared to Guardian, Nature news etc.) popular science articles on genomics and its relevance to modern…
It has been noted that East Asians are positive outliers for the latitude ~ IQ pattern, they're too far south for their high IQs. Some possible reasons for this are:…
Most environmentalists have by now given up denying the existence of racial gaps in head size, but they only retreated a few yards: Nisbett, R. E., Aronson, J., Blair, C.,…
I found some genetically informative studies on the benefits of marriage: Does marriage inhibit antisocial behavior?: An examination of selection vs causation via a longitudinal twin design. Accounting for the…
Some guy on SSC: I remember hearing somewhere that the IQ of the mother is what determines the IQ of the children. Is this accurate? To what extent does the…
While I am re-writing our PING study to become a substantial target article, John is sending it to various journals in the mean time to poke about their editorial biases.…
How easy is it to get provocative findings using mainstream methods published? Well, it depends on how provocative. Here's a second round of generally nonsensical reviews for our PING paper…
Readers will perhaps recall that I tried to come up with some metrics for the polygenicity of a trait back in 2016. Well, there's a new preprint now: Estimation of…