By: mrmandias
What’s your take on the idea that East Asian populations show more neoteny and this might be related to their elevated levels of conscientiousness and shame and etc.
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Does the higher genetic diversity in sub-Saharan Africans explain why mixed children of blacks + other couples usually look more black than anything? that they look ‘more black’ is subjective. e.g., if...
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#3, i need to check it out more closely. i’m moderately skeptical. #4, i’m more skeptical of neoteny as an explanation for things in general. but do you have a paper which i can check out? here is my...
View ArticleBy: jose
Any thoughts on the widespread use of “Kinesio” tape in the Olympics? It’s impossible not to notice how many athletes have covered themselves with these oddly irregular strips of tape. My assumption is...
View ArticleBy: Jay
Hi Razib, I’ve been following Gene Expression for some time and very much admire your work. I wonder if you’re familiar with reddit? There is a section there called IAmA where notable (and sometimes...
View ArticleBy: Ed
Is it really an unspoken truth of anthropology that East Asians are more androgynous than other races?
View ArticleBy: TGGP
Chip Smith has a sizable roundup of links on reactions to Unz. But readers should be warned that his site has the tagline “Recreational Thoughtcrime for Restive Shut-ins”, with plenty of links to...
View ArticleBy: Darkseid
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120806151137.htm New Study Defines the Genetic Map of the Jewish Diasporas
View ArticleBy: Kiwiguy
With the Olympics currently on, I note that this French journalist has a book out on group differences in sprinting....
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#8, not sure that my own style of interaction is optimal for reddit. notice that a lot of redditers are angry that i’m a dick to commenters when they link.
View ArticleBy: Sandgroper
I’m just looking through some pics of Alysson “Chicken Legs” Felix winning the women’s 200m at the London Olympics. I love her. I tipped her to win this event long before the Olympics – unfortunately,...
View ArticleBy: Darkseid
yes! I was admiring her for the past week. she’s not built like the other (manly) women. she’s feminine and articulate yet so FAST. wow. and to be that dominate for that long is amazing.
View ArticleBy: dave chamberlin
Here’s a question that hopefully is good enough to warrant an answer and maybe even a thread topic in it’s own right. What percent of the out of school public reads books. And here is a follow up snide...
View ArticleBy: Karl Zimmerman
16 - Men read a lot less than women. However, most of the difference seems to be due to fiction, which (outside of some genres like science fiction) men don’t really read at all. Men are thought to...
View ArticleBy: Joe Q.
Razib, I would be interested to know generally what your “day-job” is. This is purely out of a sense of curiosity (i.e., which part of an obviously bright and prolific polymath’s daily activities end...
View ArticleBy: Hallie Scott Kline
To anyone who understands: I am reading the paper to which the “Human on human Sex” post refers. I am somewhat familiar with the issue and the controversies. Did early moderns mate with Neandertals…...
View ArticleBy: Sandgroper
My understanding of ‘structured’ is that there was geographical separation of sub-populations within Sub-Saharan Africa, such that there was genetic differentiation between the sub-populations. I take...
View ArticleBy: Razib Khan
#20, yep. so if you variation across structured african populations, and you sample from ONE of those populations to create eurasians, and, that ancestral population had already had gene flow with...
View ArticleBy: Hallie Scott Kline
Thx Razib and Sandgroper. Reading various papers and posts, I’ve seen similar phrasing (even wondered at first if a “highly structured ancestral population” might be one that was highly stratified—lol,...
View ArticleBy: Douglas Knight
I redid some of your graphs. Your post Verbal Intelligence by Demographic consisted of graphs of interpolations of wordsum distributions. The data wasn’t very smooth and the interpolation produced ugly...
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