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Sex differences in human eye morphology
Women have rounder-looking eyes with narrower fissures, but only in Europeans. Eyes are not sexually dimorphic in other human populations. (Petr Novak, Wikicommons) The exposed white of the eye is...
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White Skin Privilege: Modern Myth, Forgotten Past
Cairo Slave Market, Maurycy Gottlieb, 1877 (Wikicommons) I've published a paper "White Skin Privilege: Modern Myth, Forgotten Past" in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. Here is...
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Not getting the concept
In selling mass immigration to the public, Japan’s government is faced with a semantic problem. Many have trouble understanding the concept, i.e., foreigners can come in large numbers, receive...
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Nigerians, Scrabble, and the GCSE
Exam hall at Hull Collegiate School (Wikicommons – Robin S. Taylor). The GCSE exam is a poor measure of raw cognitive ability. If some students get tutored and others do not, there will be more...
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The big bird that takes away water
The constellation of the Southern Cross has inspired similar myths among indigenous peoples as far apart as Australia and South America. Why?Southern Cross (Wikipedia – Yulanlu97). Did people cross...
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Recent cognitive evolution in West Africa
If we look at alleles associated with higher educational attainment, we find more of them among the Yoruba of Nigeria than among the Mende of Sierra Leone. The reason may be differences in social...
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The mismeasure of genetic differentiation
Red Tree, Piet Mondrian (1908-10)If we look at SNP alleles associated with educational attainment, we see differences between Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans. Is genetic drift the cause? Or natural...
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Selection for fair skin in Europeans and North Asians
Selection for fair skin in different human populations (Huang et al. 2021)Selection for fair skin was about four times stronger among ancestral Europeans than among ancestral North Asians or among the...
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Polygenic scores and Black Americans
Sunday Morning in Virginia (1877), by Winslow Homer. The ability to acquire language may be the mental domain where people of sub-Saharan African descent have undergone the most cognitive evolution...
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Damunwha in South Korea
Graffiti in Ansan (Wikicommons – Piotrus) I've published a paper on the Damunwhachildren of South Korea. In that country, foreign brides, mainly from Southeast Asia, produce almost 6% of births. These...
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Getting the message
Gaps between perceived and actual crime rates, by immigrant group in the Netherlands. Dutch people underestimate the crime rate of immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean while...
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American Indians in decline
After three decades of sharp decline, American Indians now have the lowest fertility rate of all ethnic groups in the U.S. The trend is real and is not due to sub-fertile Whites self-identifying as...
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Lewontin's legacy
Lewontin assumed that genetic diversity between populations is qualitatively similar to genetic diversity within populations. So comparing the two would be like comparing apples with apples. He was...
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Canada's moral panic
Kamloops Indian Residential School, 1930 (Wikicommons, Archives Deschâtelets-NDC) Last May, ground-penetrating radar revealed the existence of 215 unmarked graves on the grounds of the former...
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My Mistake
In 2010, over 10% of all South Korean marriages had at least one immigrant partner, and the trend seemed ever upward. It wasn't. The authorities responded by making immigration a lot harder for the...
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Light skin preference in Malaysia
Light skin, especially for women, is idealized much more in Asian advertisements than in American ones. Tamannaah Bhatia Lakme (Wikicommons) In Malaysia, like elsewhere in Asia, there is a general...
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A natural vaccine?
Geographic distribution of the G allele (TIMPRSS2), which is associated with a higher death rate from COVID-19. It’s most frequent on the Indo-Gangetic Plain, which has the longest continuous history...
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Post-mortem of a moral panic
Cemetery of the Kamloops Aboriginal Community (Rouillard 2022). Over time, wooden markers crumble away, and even graveyards end up abandoned and forgotten. A year ago, ground-penetrating radar...
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John Fuerst's latest paper
The Igbo used their location on the Niger Delta to become traders between the coast and the interior. In the 18th century, they were already described as high achievers with a strong commercial sense....
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Vitamin D scarcity and natural selection
In humans who are dark-skinned or who live above the Arctic Circle, natural selection has favored those who use vitamin D more efficiently or have workarounds of one sort or another for vitamin D...
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