Unz Review
How former New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade shifted global opinion on the credibility of ‘farfetched’ Wuhan lab leak theory
From early 2020 onward, the mainstream narrative had been that the virus was completely natural, and anyone who suggested that ...
Viewpoint: What it means for the world to have a collective IQ of 82
David Becker has released a new version of the World’s IQ. Each country has a score showing the cognitive abilities ...
Origins of Ashkenazi Jewry clearer once more genetic information examined
["]The Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) population is important in medical genetics due to its high rate of Mendelian disorders and other ...
End sex segregation in sport competitions? That denies genetic facts
From New York Times: What if, in some dystopian swim universe, [ace swimmer Katie] Ledecky was told that...she would have ...
How will human germline modification drive future of reproduction?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Human germline engineering (HGE) ...
Can genes explain racial and gender IQ gaps?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The different racial groups ...
We already live in world with eugenics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mention of eugenics inevitably ...
Does biology debunk ‘social construct’ view of race?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What sort of ideas ...
Biologists divided over what is a ‘species’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Many types of biologists ...
Are religious convictions heritable?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Religiosity is moderately heritable—25 ...
Why blacks sleep less: Race or racism?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. African Americans sleep on ...
Why are some societies polygamous, others monogamous?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Humans differ in paternal ...
Are Europeans genetically predisposed towards empathy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of my interests ...
Skin color didn’t always designate race or ethnicity
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mention the term ‘skin ...
White skin evolved only recently, in several distinct human populations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you read Nell ...
Earliest Americans looked European, but genes tell more complicated story
Before the Europeans came, the Americas were settled by three waves of people from northeast Asia: the oldest wave beginning ...
Genophobia, an intution like Creationism, can be overcome by science
Over at Slate Will Saletan has a very long piece Unhealthy Fixation: The war against genetically modified organisms is full ...
How did modern humans dominate Europe?
First Peoples: Europe came and went. I watched it. In case you didn’t see it there was a big reveal: archaeologists in ...
African immigrant blacks do better on IQ tests than other blacks, some whites
The fact that black immigrants to the United States have shown achievements that are superior to native black Americans has ...
Is pre-puberty too young to consider sex reassignment therapy?
Gender confusion, known medically as gender identity disorder, affects children of both sexes but boys much more so, at least ...
Who did modern Asian and European populations evolve from?
Modern Europeans can be thought of as compounds. The first element are a set of populations which descend from, or ...
Can genetics shed light on history?
When it comes to questions of demographic change genetic insights are key, and present data in a way that allows ...
Are humans genetically unique?
A new paper in Science reports high (20-40 percent) derived frequencies for an allele which seems correlated with higher rates of ...
Genghis Khan’s Legacy: Male Y chromosome tells tale of genetic and cultural evolution
I do like to suggest that the genetic and archaeological record support the conjecture of Conan the Barbarian in terms ...
What’s the average IQ in developing countries, and what impacts it?
In a new paper at the (conveniently open) journal The Winnower (h/t @whyvert), building on his earlier work, geneticist Davide ...
Does it make sense to sequence the genome of all new born babies?
This is coming, Genome Sequencing in Babies to Begin as Part of Study, with high risk cases first: "Stephen F ...
Environmentalists fumble concerns over ‘racial mixing’ and biodiversity
One of the often overlooked historical oddities in the development of the environmental movement in the United States was its ...
In India, a form of eugenics that people might embrace
The term “eugenics” has very negative connotations today. Nevertheless, in some ways society is moving in a direction which results ...