Monthly Archives: December 2011

As some of you already know, Henry and I have put forth the hypothesis that the observed high intellectual achievement of Ashkenazi Jews is a result of natural selection for intelligence over the Middle Ages. We think there’s a pretty … Continue reading →

Often we hear people argue that that racial classifications are arbitrary, and therefore race does not exist.  Actually they say a lot of things, most of which are pretty nebulous, but this point does come up. What if they were … Continue reading →

“Genetic differentiation between Early and Middle Neolithic populations was significant (FST∼0.13, P < 10−5), suggesting that genetic drift played an important role at this time.” Riiight.      

I’ve never seen anyone talk about it much, but when you think about mass extinctions, you also have to think about rates of change You can think of a species occupying a point in a many-dimensional space, where each dimension … Continue reading →