As announced late August, here is the promised discussion with Davide Piffer on ancient genomics: where we are, and where we hope to go. 1 hour and 7 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XbrzSfEz4…
I read this book the other day and it's worth reviewing in some detail. Krause, J., & Trappe, T. (2022). A short history of humanity: A new history of old…
Davide Piffer and Richard Lynn has a new study out: Piffer, D., & Lynn, R. (2022). In Italy, North-South Differences in Student Performance Are Mirrored by Differences in Polygenic Scores…
The new June issue of Mankind Quarterly is out, and naturally it features a paper of mine: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2022). Admixture and Social Status in Chile. Mankind Quarterly,…
https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1392623731835506691 I have not, but Lynn has noted that East Asians have a relative advantage in visual-spatial ability, and that's their written language, possibly some gene-culture co-evolution. One study shows…
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…
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.…
You might have heard the DUF1220 hypothesis, it goes something like this: DUF1220 is a copy number variant poorly tagged by arrays, and thus would not be captured well by…
Previous results. 23andme has updated their ancestry estimates, so I'm reposting mine for people who are wondering. The change to previously is that now I'm slightly more European: 99.8% vs.…
Sometimes references are made to such findings. For instance, in Is There Anything Good About Men? (Roy F. Baumeister, 2007): Recent research using DNA analysis answered this question about two…