Hutus and Tutsis and genetics
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…
Michael Ryan’s The Genetics of Political Behavior (2021)
The book is described as: In this unique amalgam of neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary psychology, Ryan argues that leftists and rightists are biologically distinct versions of the human species that…
How many human genomes do we need for accurate genetic prediction models?
In a recent thread on X, I added: Why do we need so much genetic data? Well, there are 3B positions in the genome, about 1% of them vary (30M).…
Reader questions from 13th Feb 2025
Back in February I posted the first of a series of paid subs ask me questions threads. Readers has some questions, so I'll attempt to answer them. This is in…
Bayesian hereditarianism
In august 2023, Sean Last wrote an important post that didn't receive enough attention. His point was that model comparisons are not correctly (Bayesically) applied in the hereditarianism vs. egalitarianism…
Women’s neuroticism, relationships, and fertility
There's a few findings that no one seems to have integrated, so this is my attempt. First off, women are higher in neuroticism than men. Neuroticism can generally be described…
When did NW Europeans become WEIRD? Not from lack of inbreeding
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…
Dysgenics: within and between
Lyman Stone has a new post over at Institute for Family Studies: Are We Headed Towards ‘Idiocracy’? A Look at ‘Dysgenic Fertility’. His main point is that the strength of…
Selective migration and regression towards the mean
There is much discussion in these days about immigration to the West, and in particular, skilled migration to the United States. Critics of migration often point to regression towards the…
Yes, Elon should clone himself now
Speaking of other science advances we could make right now, human cloning is a good opportunity. Why spend time optimizing embryo selection if we can just take a genome we…