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…
Accelerating genetic science: turning around the data access censorship
James Lee, authors of many GWAS studies wrote a piece in 2022 entitled Don't even go there saying that NIH is increasingly censorious regarding data access. Since it is short, I…
European polygenic scores predict Chinese provincial differences too
If you haven't seen my new article about the new David Reich lab ancient genomes results in Aporia magazine yet, head over there now: Overwhelming evidence of recent evolution in…
Overwhelming evidence of recent evolution in West Eurasians
David Reich's team has a new kickass preprint out: Akbari, A., Barton, A. R., Gazal, S., Li, Z., Kariminejad, M., Perry, A., ... & Reich, D. (2024). Pervasive findings of…
Direct genetic evidence for ethnic differences in aggressiveness
My recent blogpost about Africans propensity to violence got some attention. In the post I noted that direct evidence was mostly missing. I've done some further reading, and discovered that…
Africans, violence and genetics
Over on Twitter/X, science journalist i/o writes: I get replies all the time under my posts that suggest or claim that wildly disproportionate black violence and the apparently unmovable US…
The first admixture mapping study for intelligence
There's a new study out of note: Xia, R., Jian, X., Rodrigue, A. L., Bressler, J., Boerwinkle, E., Cui, B., ... & Fornage, M. (2024). Admixture mapping of cognitive function…
What do genomic principal components mean?
There's a new study out making the rounds, but first I want to divert and ask: Who invented admixture regression? Here I mean the analysis where admixture (ancestry) estimates of…
Is IVF dysgenic?
One of the concerns that conservatives sometimes bring up is that while it is true that using IVF/ART (in vitro fertilization/assisted reproductive technologies) can have a eugenic effect if they…