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Did humans evolve to become morning people farther north?
What Can Ancient Dog DNA Tell Us About Fear?
Roman resilience after military defeat
Height, hair colour and cognition in ancient Britain
Celtic and Germanic ancestry through time in Britain
The unresolved history of Celtic and Germanic Europe
Height polygenic scores predict skeletal stature in ancient Europeans
Which came first, intelligence or civilisation?
Immigration Doesn’t Explain Ancient Rome’s Genetic Decline
Were Ancient Elites Genetically Different or Just Related?
Population differences beyond polygenic scores
Roman defeats before and after the fall of the West
How “Aryan” ancestry reached China
Rome and the Northern Catch-Up: Direct Genetic Effects, Harder Answers
Intelligence and the Uneven Pace of History
Did farming lighten skin twice?
Where Celtic Languages Came From
Reich’s new paper: Could humans interbreed after 1.2 million years apart?
Patience and the Pecking Order
Did Seeds or Scholars Bend the Genetic Curve?
Does civilization progress in a straight line or in cycles?
Did Confucianism select for education or intelligence?
Education and intelligence polygenic scores, thirteen years later
Intelligence and inequality: what ancient graves reveal
We finally have a new IQ GWAS: does it have higher predictive accuracy?
Did Confucian institutions leave a trace in ancient DNA?
Digging the elite: richer graves, lighter skin?
The ingredients of light skin genetics: farming, low UV and ancestry
Solving the Aryan paradox: Why northern Europeans have fair skin but their ancestors were not pale
Could Ancient DNA Predict What Went Into the Grave?
Can we predict population skin color with polygenic scores?
A New Study of Education’s Genetics Confirms and Surprises
Did Ancient Warming Push Societies Backward?
Rome and the Northern Catch Up Reanalysed
Mixing Ancestries Does Not Instantly Make a Population
Do Climate and Geography Shape Personality in Europe?
What Neanderthal DNA Left Behind
The Genetic Iron Curtain: Differences between East and West in Polygenic Scores
Childhood prosperity, genes and PISA performance
My genome among ancient populations
Am I 100% Republican Roman? It depends.
Can personality polygenic scores travel across populations?
From Hunter-Gatherers to Romans: Testing Northern and Central Italian DNA
My New Book Is Out: Buried in the Genome
Did Farming Make Us Smarter? The Rice-and-Wheat Test
Local Jōmon Ancestry in Japanese Genomes
Did Genetic Decline Contribute to the Late Bronze Age Collapse in Greece?
Painting Geographic Maps with DNA
What Changed in Anatolia When the Turks Arrived?
Can Skin, Hair and Eyes Tell You Where Someone’s Ancestors Came From?
How Much Did the Slavic Migrations Change Greece?
What Have Neanderthals Done for Us? The Claims That Survive a Fact Check
The Genetic Geography of Patience
Did the “Neanderthal Muscle Gene” Really Turn Modern Humans into Muscle Heads?
Can Genes Help Countries Get Rich?
AI Isn’t Outthinking Mathematicians. It’s Out-Remembering Them.
Female Farmers, Jōmon Men, and the Hidden Polygyny Assumption
Genes, Meat, or Soy: What Best Predicts Human Height?
Blue Eyes, Blond Hair, Pale Skin and Milk: Which Came First?
Did Genetic Degeneration Really Doom the Neanderthals?
Does Every European Descend From Charlemagne?
The genetic map of education and IQ in Spain
The Third Great Demotion: Copernicus, Darwin, and AI
Rome Was Ahead. Then the Barbarians Caught Up.
Will Global Warming Push Civilization Backward?
Erling Haaland and the Giants of the Viking Age
Elite Surnames, Average Phenotypes
Did Confucian Institutions Select for Educational Attainment?
Did Cold Make Human Brains Bigger?
Who are the Roma Gypsies? What Their DNA Tells Us
Italy’s Rolling R: A Natural Experiment in the Genetics of Speech
Pakistan’s Natural Experiment in Mendelian Genetics
Did Rome Rise and Fall With Genetic Human Capital?
Did Hard Times Build Civilization?
Did Climate Cooling Select for Cognitive Abilities?
Did Cold Climates Select for Cold Personalities?
Did Climate Change Make Humans Shorter or Taller?
Did Covid Vaccination Rollouts Affect Birth Rates? A Look at the Post-2021 Numbers
The Yann LeCun Effect: Why Pioneers Turn Into Dissidents
A Chihuahua, a Labrador, and the Limits of Genetic Distance
The Arctic Cognition Gene, 13 Years Later
Did Farming Leave a Mutational Fingerprint?
Nature’s Response Missed the Point
When Did Northern and Southern Italians Become Different?
Did the Black Death Select for Intelligence?
Was the Ancient Elite Tall, Blonde, and Light-Skinned?
Japan’s First Footprints: Tracing the Genetic Legacy of the Jomon
Predicting Substack Growth: How Long Before You Hit a Wall?
Does "Slavic DNA" Actually Exist?
Are Northern Italians Really More Germanic? A Second Look
Were Celts and Germanics Genetically Different?
Germanic Origins Inside the Ancestry Doll
Did Islands Make People Shorter?
Did Harsh Seasons Make Complex Societies?
The Farmer Signal in Intelligence Appears in East Asia Too: The Rise of the Han
When Correcting for Ancestry Corrects Away Evolution
Did the New Nature Study Correct Away Evolution in Ancient Europe?
The People Who Replaced Ancient Europe
Were Ancient Europeans as Different as Another Race?
Does Ancient DNA Track Human Progress, or Just Time?
What Akbari’s Reply Gets Wrong About Science
Why Do So Many Strongmen Come From the Nordic Countries?
AI and the Coming Economy of Questions
Psychology’s Blind Spot: Laziness
Do Genetically Smarter Populations Climb the Civilization Ladder Earlier?
Who Are the World’s Most Generous People? It Depends How You Ask
The Reich Lab’s Null Result on East Asian Skin Pigmentation Is Probably a Limitation of Their Method
Creativity, the Hypomanic Edge, and the Genomic Blind Spot
R1b Imperfectly Tracks Steppe Ancestry
Who Are the “Purest” Europeans?
Please, Have a Seat: Sitting Height Ratio and Human Variation
Modern Middle Eastern inbreeding patterns may have very deep roots
The Dating Study Everyone Is Sharing Is Being Misread
Italy’s Fertility Collapse Is No Longer About Delay
Neanderthals Interbred With Us. How Genetically Different Were They?
Europeans Didn’t Evolve as One Population
The Genetic Formation of the Han Chinese: Longshan Expansion and Early Homogenization
Why Do Some Countries Win So Many Olympic Medals?
A Debate on Race and Genomic Prediction: Geneticist vs. Heterodox Leftist Logician
Did Brain Size Decline After the Upper Paleolithic?
Cold Winters, Academic Achievement and Income in Italy
Testing Cold Winters, Seasonality, and UVB in Ancient Genomes
Why Northern Europeans Seem Aloof and Southern Europeans Outgoing
Eugenic clannishness, dysgenic inbreeding?
Throwing Cold Water on the Cold Winters Hypothesis: A Global Test
Italy’s North–South divide: what genome-wide similarity misses
The Rise of Rome and the Rise of Polygenic Scores
Human–Chimp DNA Similarity: 99%, 95%, or 85%?
Ten Myths About Human Genetics That Refuse to Die
Finding a nation’s “Urheimat” with population-genetic tools
Can we detect polygenic selection within Europe without being fooled by population structure?
Genetic space and geographic space: how similar are they, really?
Genetic evidence for race differences in behaviour
Why Africans Can Look Closer to the Human–Chimp Ancestor Under Some Metrics