I have tried to come up with a short list of wikipedia articles of interest to the debate here. There may be some participants on GNXP who have some expertise in a few of these topics and are interested in contributing. I’m not going to take the time to hotlink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligencehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bell_curvehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Murray_%28author%29http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Manhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slatehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Pinkerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Gouldhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_%28trait%29http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_sailerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychologyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_realismhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Cochranhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogenic_theory_of_homosexualityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi#Natural_history_of_Ashkenazi_intelligencehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Jensen There are many others, […]

This has been around for a few months, but I didn’t catch it until now. Big-brained people are smarter: A meta-analysis of the relationship between in vivo brain volume and intelligence Abstract The relationship between brain volume and intelligence has been a topic of a scientific debate since at least the 1830s. To address the […]

Geep This might actually be more interesting than the article points out. According to this web site, previous ‘geeps’ were artificial chimeras. There are some pictures there. Posted by Thrasymachus at 01:02 PM

After the recent post, I notice that there still seems to be considerable debate on the Flynn effect, and I don’t see any particular prevailing view among the participants here on GNXP. So I’ll ask this question flat out: What makes you so sure (if you are sure) that IQ measurements of intelligence can be […]

I’ve heard of this before. Pathogens, specifically pesticides, may help explain the fall of male fertillity over the past 50 years. The mechanism seems interesting, however. It is multigenerational, but does not involve mutation. I’d like to read the paper. The study was carried out on laboratory rats that received high levels of vinclozolin, a […]

The Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence has found a journal. It will be published by The Journal of Biosocial Science. Here is an article in The Economist. The New York Times may be publishing something before long. Update from Razib: Now in The New York Times. Pinker responds mildly positively, though he seems slotted in […]

I got an email from Greg Cochran last night, with the full text of this article: There’s Something Curious About Paternal Age Effects There seems to be a good connection between paternal age and short-limbed dwarfism. A simillar pattern can be seen in Apert’s syndrome. Both these disorders seem to be present in the population […]

All right, it’s time for local school boards to start mandating the teaching of all that Intelligent Design garbage alongside Evolution. Enough people believe it — enough people in important positions no less — that ignorance of the main tenants of ID is akin to ignorance of the Bible. And the place where ID should […]

Sniffing out the gay gene by Steven Pinker. According to Pinker, there is a reason that the recent discovery of differing reactions to odor by gay and straight men was made in Europe. In America, the biology of homosexuality is a politicized minefield that scares away scientists (and the universities and agencies that pay for […]

Mothers pregnant with boys may be less forgetful than those carrying girls, Canadian researchers said on Tuesday. The researchers said they found evidence that women who gave birth to boys consistently outperformed moms of girls in tests that specifically taxed memory in areas of listening, computational and visualization skills. Interesting. But more importantly, this is […]

The mental effects of bariatric surgery: “If the woman married when she was thin, had kids, became obese, and then had the surgery, the marriage almost always got a lot better,” he explains. (An estimated 75 percent of all bariatric patients are female.) “But if the woman married someone while she was obese and then […]

The rich are getting fat. Further complicating attempts to compare income and obesity are cultural factors. Certain racial and ethnic groups positively equate a man’s girth with wealth — it’s a sign of success, Drewnowski said. “I would caution against any attempts to interpret these data to say social differences have disappeared,” he said. “It […]

This is a joke page, right? Beginning last November, the city of San Francisco began a program whereupon clinically obese men between the ages of 18 and 55 could undergo a procedure whereupon approximately 1/2 an inch is removed from each vas and the ends are sealed – commonly referred to as a vasectomy – […]

There is a tremendous amount of impressive information in the Gene Expression archives. And because it’s only organized by date, it’s underutilized. How to organize it? The Gene Expression Textbook Project, maybe? Organize it around giving people an introduction into human biodiversity? Maybe some sort of greatest hits list? If we get serious about something […]

Every now and then someone capable of reasonable thought writes out a long attack on evolution, and I feel like responding with a persuasive essay explaining why he is wrong. In fact, I have been known to do that in the past. But I don’t anymore because I have found that the only people whose […]

Okay, this story has got everything. Eugenics, homosexuality, abortion, Republicans versus Democrats, even Rush Limbaugh. A Republican lawmaker in Maine has introduced a bill to prohibit abortions based on the sexual orientation of the unborn baby. State Rep. Brian Duprey wants the Legislature to forbid a woman from ending a pregnancy because the fetus is […]

I saw razib’s note on Zimmer’s article, and it gave me a couple ideas which I posted at my site. GNXPers might be interested, so I’m reposting here. The advantage of discussing written language instead of spoken language is that it by definition moves us up into historical time periods instead of prehistoric. If you […]

Gay gene or gay virus? An interview with Greg Cochran (by me). Posted by Thrasymachus at 04:43 PM

Possibilities: 1) The Flynn Effect is based on bad data.2) The Flynn Effect tracks non-g rises in IQ.3) The Flynn Effect measures a rise in g. Therefore better environments improve g a lot.4) The entire concept of g is somehow faulty5) The entire concept of IQ is somehow faulty. I think that we can rule […]

I read this article in the New England Journal of Medicine the other week. Researchers have been able to synthesize something close to Spanish Influenza and use it to infect mice. Hopefully nobody working on this sort of thing has a grudge against society. Or is going through a bad breakup. Posted by Thrasymachus at […]