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Farewell to Henry
•ï¿½April 4, 2016
•ï¿½1,200 Words •ï¿½57 Comments • Reply
Henry Harpending (1944-2016) died this past Sunday. He had a stroke a year ago, and then a second one three weeks ago, but apparently he died of a lung infection. This is one of the risks of getting older: you dodge one bullet only to get hit by another. The cemeteries are full of people... Read More
Henry Harpending: Extremist – Says the Southern Poverty Law Center
•ï¿½August 27, 2015
•ï¿½2,500 Words •ï¿½175 Comments • Reply
The Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) current "Featured Extremist" (their words) is none other than the mild-mannered Henry Harpending of West Hunter. They go into a fair amount of detail about Harpending and his work, but take a look at what they say. Are they actually trying to discredit him (emphasis mine)? Henry Harpending is... Read More
"Ethnic Genetic Interests" Do Not Exist (Neither Does Group Selection)
•ï¿½August 2, 2015
•ï¿½2,500 Words •ï¿½97 Comments • Reply
Just as mainstream wisdom on human psychology and evolution is filled with heaps of rubbish (rubbish which I've covered here extensively – see 200 Blog Posts – Everything You Need to Know (To Start)), the space of dissenting voices on this matter is also filled with its own share of rubbish – and worse. I've... Read More
Hanging Outside Newgate Prison. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
How Many Were Already Fathers?
•ï¿½April 4, 2015
•ï¿½1,200 Words •ï¿½43 Comments • Reply
In England, executions peaked between 1500 and 1750 at 1 to 2% of all men of each generation. Were there genetic consequences? Were propensities for violence being removed from the gene pool? Did the English population become kinder and gentler? Such is the argument I made in a recent paper with Henry Harpending. In this... Read More
Dick Turpin was convicted of robbery but had also been guilty of a string of murders. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time?
•ï¿½March 28, 2015
•ï¿½2,600 Words •ï¿½71 Comments • Reply
In each generation from 1500 to 1750, between 1 and 2% of all English men were executed either by court order or extra-judicially (at the scene of the crime or while in prison). This was the height of a moral crusade by Church and State to punish the wicked so that the good may live... Read More
Migrants arriving on the island of Lampedusa. The NATO-led invasion of Libya has opened a huge breach in Europe\
Antiracism: Sometimes the Consensus Is Phony
•ï¿½January 3, 2015
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A synthesis has been forming in the field of human biodiversity. It may be summarized as follows: 1. Human evolution did not end in the Pleistocene or even slow down. In fact, it speeded up with the advent of agriculture 10,000 years ago, when the pace of genetic change rose over a hundred-fold. Humans were... Read More
When geneticist Davide Piffer examined IQ-enhancing alleles at seven different genes, he found that their average prevalence differed among human populations, being highest in East Asians and lowest in Mbuti Pygmies (photo used with author\
A New Start
•ï¿½July 28, 2014
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My weekly posts are now appearing on The Unz Review( By accepting Ron's invitation, I hope to reach a bigger audience and bring myself closer to other writers in the area of human biodiversity. When people work together, or simply alongside each other, minor differences can be ironed out and major differences narrowed or at... Read More
The Son Becomes the Father
•ï¿½March 31, 2014
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A vigorous discussion has been triggered by the release of Gregory Clark's The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility. In this book, Clark details his work which shows a large transmission of status from generation to generation, all across the world, going back centuries. The discussion has raged on the mode... Read More
The Paradox of the Visual Word Form Area
•ï¿½March 1, 2014
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Luke the Evangelist (source: British Library). In the past, only a minority could read long texts of cursive writing. But many more could read short texts of block writing. The Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) is a specialized part of the brain that helps us recognize written words and letters. If it is subjected to... Read More
100 Blog Posts - A Reflection on HBD Blogging and What Lies Ahead
•ï¿½June 5, 2013
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This is my 100th blog post. Upon reaching this milestone, I thought that this would be a great time to take moment to look back at my experience as a blogger in Human BioDiversity (HBD) and share my thoughts on the things to come. 1. The Beginning 2. Fertility 3. Immigration and the economy 4.... Read More
The Parsis
•ï¿½April 6, 2013
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A Parsi woman in traditional costume, painted by Raja Ravi Varma (source) The Parsis are renowned for achievement in many areas of life—trade, education, philanthropy, and popular culture. Yet they number only about 100,000 in the entire world (Wikipedia, 2013). What qualities made them so successful? The most often-cited ones are their thrift, foresight, skillfulness,... Read More
Evidence for Cochran's & Harpending's Theory of Genetic Load: the Link Between IQ and Attractiveness
•ï¿½July 23, 2012
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Greg Cochran and Henry Harpending have recently proposed a hypothesis on their blog that posits that the lower average IQ of tropical peoples may be related to the number of fitness reducing mutations these people carry. Apparently, the rate of mutation is higher in the tropics. The majority of mutations that occur are neutral and... Read More
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