Cognitive Function and our Genetic Code
Courtesy of Razib… Developing Intelligence : 99% Genetic? Individual Differences in Executive Function Are Almost Perfectly HeritableYour ability to control thought and behavior relative to your peers...
View ArticleThe Genetics of Human Social Behavior, and Its Implications for the Peace
This is very cool. DRD47R is associated not just with high functioning ADD, novelty seeking, and distance from the Yellow River of China (for mongoloid populations), but also Friendship, Politics, and...
View ArticleThe New Core sets the New Rules, on Designer Babies
Today’s food for thought: 40% of income is heritable. Only 2% of income as a function of IQ is. Hundreds of gene affect height; blondness can be controlled with four Analysis: Making babies: the next...
View ArticleSide-Effect
Razib at gnxp uses the word “pleiotropy,” but you can focus on its result: “side-effect.” It appears that skin and hair color evolved later than the founding of the major continental racial...
View ArticleThe Clusters of the Races of Europe
Catholigauze blogged the last genetic map of Europe and numerous friends asked me for my thoughts on it, so I thought I would be ahead of the curve and post the latest version of how they can place...
View ArticleGene Expression: Notes on Sewall Wright: the Adaptive Landscape
Apparently inspired by Razib’s epic post on faith and historical dynamics, DavidB over at gnxp writes his own epic post on fitness peaks. Again, there is too much to summarize, but this analogy to why...
View ArticleGroup Differences in the News
Evolution has, is, and will continue to go on all around some. Some recent blog posts about group differences, and how selection effects them. From Catholicgauze, The Roman Empire weakened European...
View ArticleGenetic Map of East Asia
This genetic map of East Asia appears to be formed by running a Principal Component Analysis (PCA), taking the two largest components, using those as horizontal and vertical axes, and then rotating...
View ArticleSome Notes on the Development of Our Species
In recent days there has been a bru-haha in the conservative blogosphere as a result of Rich Lowry dismissing John Derbyshire from his position as a writer for National Review Online. The occasion was...
View ArticleFlesh and Blood, Genetic and Non-Genetic Influences
Three Cheers for Genetic Discrimination! On facebook, Niles Bliss made some comments about genetics and human behavior that are worth describing. He phrased the same belief in a number of different...
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