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Modern man is a wimp?
October 21, 2009
Australian anthropologist Peter McAllister posits that modern homo sapiens are physically wimpy compared to our neanderthal and ancient predecessors. From Reuters: Modern man a wimp says anthropologist Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:24am EDT By John Mehaffey LONDON (Reuters) – Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in […]
Brain Facts
August 12, 2009
The Society for Neuroscience has published a really fantastic primer (called Brain Facts) on the brain’s makeup, function, and development. I’ve found it useful for helping me remember the frontal from the occipital lobe.
Half Sigma, race, and intelligence
February 20, 2009
I found an essay on race and intelligence by Half Sigma via Guy White. I find the following to be the most interesting part of Sigma’s essay: At the conclusion of this essay, it’s appropriate to ask if this essay will convince anyone of anything? The answer is that it’s possible that someone sitting on […]
This is your brain on Google
January 27, 2009
Eide Neurolearning Blog is a gem of a site. They have a fantastic post on how Google is changing your brain. One potentially bad consequence is: . . . Google brains are more likely to become intolerant of slow - slow thinking, all the ruminating, and reflection that comes with critical analysis and really processes of any […]
Men are smarter than women only because of height?
January 27, 2009
I came across two interesting posts by Satoshi Kanazawa on the fact that men on average have a slightly higher IQ than women. Here is a brief summary on the difference in average IQ. Kanazawa argues that men don’t on average have greater g than women because they are men, but simply because of their […]
Sperm quality and general intelligence
January 27, 2009
Our friendly StatSquatch has a new post on sperm quality correlating with general intelligence. Perhaps nerds will start trying to put some moves on the ladies and stop watching so much Star Trek.
New article on the genetics of intelligence
January 16, 2009
I found this article by Chris Brand on Locust blog via Guy White. Here is a snippet to entice you: The moment the anti-racists and egalitarians have dreaded has now arrived. In September, University of Chicago geneticists published data in the prestigious journal Science that links two sets of genetic variations (alleles) to brain size, race, and […]
Steven Pinker on his genome
January 13, 2009
I found, via Gene Expression, that Steven Pinker talks about his genome. Razib and Steve Sailer discuss Pinker’s article here and here.
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