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European Hair, Eye, and Skin Color: Solving the Puzzle
The distinguishing physical features of Europeans began as female features. I’ve published a book through Academica Press. It’s titled: European Hair, Eye, and Skin Color: Solving the Puzzle. It can...
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How some populations adapt to vitamin D scarcity
Vitamin D metabolism varies from one human population to another, as do most heritable traits. This is the subject of a review article I’ve recently published in the journal Nutrients. Here is the...
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Sex differences in the whites of the eyes
Women have sclera (whites of the eyes) that are less yellow and less red. Although this sex difference is unknown to almost everyone, people nonetheless perceive a female face with redder and yellower...
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Eppur si muove
General intelligence (g) varies with ethnicity, as do genetic variants associated with educational attainment (Lasker et al. 2019, p. 445) Bryan Pesta was fired from a tenured university position for...
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Looking beyond the data
General intelligence (g factor) as a function of alleles associated with educational attainment (Education polygenic score). (Fuerst et al. 2021, p. 165)Among non-Hispanic European Americans,...
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Giorgia Meloni: The hard work is just starting
Giorgia Meloni, October 21, 2022 In the space of four years, Giorgia Meloni has gone from being the leader of a minor party to being the leader of Italy, with an absolute majority in both houses of...
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Recent evolution in human brain size
Human brain size remained stable from 300,000 to 60,000 years ago. It then diversified, becoming larger in some populations and smaller in others. This was when modern humans were spreading out of...
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I have lately been posting on Substack rather than here. My aim there is to write longer articles that build on earlier posts from Evo and Proud. Some of them may eventually be consolidated into a...
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Circumventing the X algorithms
J. Howard Miller's "We Can Do It!", also called "Rosie the Riveter" (Wikicommons)Since my move to Substack, I have been getting much less traffic from X (formerly Twitter), apparently because X is...
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My wish list for research in 2024: 1. Genetic pacification in Western Europe...
Men fighting with daggers and a sword (Wikicommons)The State consolidates its power by monopolizing the use of violence. To this end, it will eliminate those men who use violence for personal ends. The...
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My wish list for research in 2024: Recent cognitive evolution in West Africa
Drainage basin of the Niger River (Wikicommons - Wizardist)Social complexity was more advanced, and cognitive demands higher, in West African societies that benefited from trade via the Niger River....
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My wish list for research in 2024: Why does estrogen make my brown eyes blue?...
Eye colors (R.A. Sturm, University of Queensland)Estrogen seems to favor the expression of non-black hair and non-brown eyes during fetal development. The “new” hair and eye colors are not only more...
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My wish list for 2024: Hormonal inputs into perception of human skin color by...
Subjects identify the face on the left as female and the face on the right as male. The only difference is the lightness of the skin. Richard Russell, Sinha Laboratory for Vision Research,...
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