race/history/evolution notes

Discussing a recent study ( Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations ) that found an effect for runs of h...

James Thompson summarizes a recent paper ("Intelligence and criminal behavior in a total birth cohort: An examination of functional fo...

Title: P08.40-M - The degree of Intellectual Disability is significantly associated with an excess of Runs of Homozygosity (ROH) Keywords:...

Title: C11.1 - Polygenic risk for ADHD is associated with impaired educational achievement and lower IQ in the general population Keywords...

Some abstracts and videos from the 2013 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Genetic genealogy comes of age: advanc...

Cognitive ability and the division of labor in urban ghettos: Evidence from gang activity in U.S. data Hernstein and Murray (1994) famously...

Intelligence and bribing behavior in a one-shot game We investigate the relationship between intelligence and bribing behavior in a simple ...

(Via Chuck .) Elaboration on the association between IQ and parental SES with subsequent crime. Personality and Individual Differences 50 (2...

The Genetic Correlation between Height and IQ: Shared Genes or Assortative Mating? In this study, we modeled the covariation between monoz...

" By reviving lost species, a new company could put a warm and fuzzy face on advanced reproductive engineering ": Two of biotechn...

A new paper from Robert Plomin (full text is free ), reiterating a point that some are still failing to grasp: For nearly a century, twin an...

A 2012 PhD thesis ( pdf ): Symmetry – measured as the size asymmetry of a group of symmetrical body traits such as ear height or elbow circu...

New paper from Visscher, Deary, Plomin, and others, with results consistent with previous findings : Intelligence in childhood, as measured...

Via Sailer . Note: the article is by Ron Unz, though in this case his numbers appear consistent with my own impressions and previous knowle...

From a presentation by Steve Hsu ( pdf slides ): Quantitative traits: many alleles, each of small effect. GWAS discovery of individual loci ...

A reader emails a link ( pdf ) to a recent paper from Rindermann: Studies investigating evolutionary theories on the origins of national di...

"Doing research on intelligence is fascinating, and also sometimes frustrating. Like being a meteorologist, when you tell someone ...

This meeting took place a couple weeks ago -- dgmacarthur is presently posting from ICHG2011 . James Watson is asking a question . At lea...

Those who read Sailer learned of this study a couple weeks ago. I've finally gotten around to looking at the actual paper , which seems...

A commenter writes: "Robert Plomin and colleagues have apparently found some IQ genes". From the story : SCIENTISTS have identifi...