Science vs. ideology on vertical transfers
Last year Marcus Feldman and Kevin Lala published one of those anti-hereditarian pieces: Lala, K. N., & Feldman, M. W. (2024). Genes, culture, and scientific racism. Proceedings of the National…
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.…
Of cats and dogs and men
Genetic variation between populations/races of a species is a nice single summary statistic about how large between population phenotypic differences to expect. In case of humans, this value (Fst, the…
Genomic autocorrelation of quantitative traits
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/662840970166280192 See first: Some methods for measuring and correcting for spatial autocorrelation Piffer's method Piffer's method to examine the between group heritability of cognitive ability and height uses polygenic scores…