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Born this way?
Lady Gaga on the Monster Ball Tour, 2010Note: Post has been updated with new data from Jason Malloy“Why not? It will leave more women for the rest of us.” I remember hearing that argument for gay...
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Are male and female homosexuality inversely correlated?
U.S. General Social Survey (analysis by Jason Malloy),- only groups of 40 or more individuals included- homosexual category includes bisexualsJason Malloy has looked into the U.S. General Social Survey...
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Ron Unz on Race, IQ, and Wealth
Former juvenile detention center in Torgau, East Germany. Was truancy treated the same way in West Germany and the DDR? (source)Ron Unz has come out with an article on “Race, IQ, and Wealth” in the...
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More on Race, IQ, and Wealth
Cover page of American Conservative, a megaphone for dubious science? (source)My comments on Ron Unz’s article “Race, IQ, and Wealth” have led to further exchanges between myself and Ron. There seem to...
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Too darn hot?
Does higher IQ correlate with colder temperatures? Not among people belonging to the same cultural system, such as the Chinese. (source)Big brains are costly, not only because of their high energy...
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What you don't know can hurt you
In 1972, the U.S. passed the Clean Water Act, despite a presidential veto by Richard Nixon. Did this act also end an era of unusually high estrogen levels in the environment? (cartoon source)There has...
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He who pays the piper ...
You want to publish a book about HBD? You’ll have to find a wealthy patron.Debate is continuing over Ron Unz’s article on Race, IQ, and Wealth. In a favorable review at Living Anthropologically, the...
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On global inequality
Western Europe began to overtake the rest of the world long before it established colonial empires in Africa, Asia, and the Americas (source) In Why Nations Fail, economist Daren Acemoglu sees global...
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Dr. Griskevicius speaking on the mating game. The economic consequences are big. (source)The mate market isn’t what it used to be. As late as the mid-1970s, single women outnumbered single men at all...
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Growing your own merchant class
Sign for an inn, late 17th century, New France. Many merchants began as innkeepers who provided not only accommodation but also other services. (source) I have just published an article in the journal...
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East Germans are getting a lot smarter ... Really?
Unemployment rates in the West and East of Germany (source) Did East German conscripts become smarter because East Germans were becoming smarter? Or were smarter individuals increasingly seeing the...
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On paternal age and IQ
Do older fathers have dumber children? For the past millennium, paternal age has been relatively high in Europe west of the Hajnal line. Yet, if anything, mean IQ is higher there than elsewhere. H/T to...
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Trans-species polymorphisms
A trans-species polymorphism. Some genetic polymorphisms are found in distantly related species, having persisted across multiple speciation events. (source)It is widely known that considerable genetic...
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J. Philippe Rushton (1943-2012) R.I.P.
J. Philippe Rushton. February 8, 1989 (source)I first heard about J. Philippe Rushton in the mid-1980s. My mother would leave newspaper clippings about him on my desk, thinking I might be interested....
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Now what?
Recent research, such as by historical economist Gregory Clark, suggests that differences in mental and behavioral traits cannot always be ascribed to different reproductive strategies, as Philippe...
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When Europeans turned white
No, that’s not a climatic adaptation (actress Lily Cole - source)“European skin turned pale only recently”—such was the headline in Science five years ago. […] a new report on the evolution of a gene...
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A detour through Europe?
The lithic technology of southwestern France (c. 22,000-17,000 BP) strangely resembles that of the first paleo-Amerindians (c. 12,000). Some people speculate that early Europeans reached North America...
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Are the cads outbreeding the dads?
Whom will she choose? (source) There has been much talk about two findings from a recent study: (a) boys reach puberty at different ages in different ethnic groups and (b) boys are reaching puberty...
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Are women changing color?
Tanned arm (source). Underarm skin color used to be a reliable measure of constitutive pigmentation (skin color before tanning). Is it still?After puberty, girls become lighter-skinned than boys. This...
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The mysterious Ainu
Ainu men and Ainu woman, 18th century painting by Kodama Sadayoshi (source)The Ainu of northern Japan have long been a puzzle. With their bushy beards, profuse body hair, large sunken eyes, and robust...
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