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You might also be interested in my booklists from 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018. A World At Arms Guadalcanal How the North Won The Way Things Work The Ants Twilight of the Mammoths The Prose Edda The Spanish Civil War The Fall … Continue reading →

Abdel Abdellaoui and colleagues recent put out a paper on genetics and social stratification in Great Britain. Among other things, they found that polygenic scores of educational attainment were lower in seriously economically depressed areas,  such as coal mining towns … Continue reading →

  I was some interested in the Congo wars, back in the 90s, but there was  very little coverage in the media. Eventually I ran across an article that had maps of the front lines, reasonable discussions of the players  … Continue reading →

What are the earliest refs you know of that mention the disadvantages of inbreeding, in animals and/or humans?

This is a table of the distribution of edar370a, the allele that plays a big role in making Northeast Asians look the way they do.  I’ve talked about it before. Note that the allele frequency is generally zero in African … Continue reading →

Today we’re seeing clear evidence of genetic differences between classes: causal differences.  People with higher socioeconomic status have ( on average) higher EA polygenic scores. Higher scores for cognitive ability, as well. This is of course what every IQ test … Continue reading →

Sometimes in a long struggle, the players have a felt need to believe that it all means something: that the buddies they lost died for something important, that they made a difference…  Sometimes it’s even true.  But it ain’t necessarily … Continue reading →