I could totally see male gayness and female baby lust coming from the same genes; they both represent a 'feminine' sexual pattern, after all. 
 
That might even be why gay genes get propagated; they cause women to have lots of kids, so who cares if a few guys don't have any? It's only the sum of the genes that matters...

Steve may be onto something in that smart people are more able to see long-term and at least act nice. 
 
Alternatively, maybe they see Steve's smart and like other smart people. Who knows?

Figures you guys would want to create superintelligent robots instead of nerdy women who would actually want to sleep with us. ;)

I'm sure someone has thought of this before on this board, but could be the relationship between IQ and mental illness in Jews was the result of overclocking...they selected for IQ too quickly and wound up with deleterious genes connected to it. Sorta like the cochran hypothesis. 
 
Also, anxiety might have had a beneficial role for a stigmatized group that was intermittently persecuted. Last one out of the village when the Cossacks come might have been the one to get killed...and I'd like to see the genes of the first Jews out of Europe before the Nazis took over. Remember the dude in Cabaret? "Oh, we'll be fine...we've survived other things..."

Really? I am high in both SQ and Agreeableness. Am I just weird, or perhaps this is the B-brain that Baron-Cohen talks about? I think EQ may be narrower than Agreeableness. For instance, Agreeableness doesn't require facility in reading the emotions of others. 
 
These are all average patterns, of course there are outliers. You can have both, and in fact you have the best of both worlds! ;)  
 
There was a bit about autistic women in the Times; one of their problems was that they had a strong desire to interact but poor ability to interact successfully, so social isolation bothered them more than the men.  
 
As an aside, the pen-and-paper RPG Blue Rose, which attempted to mimic the female-slanted fantasy genre, listed the differing traits of romantic fantasy from the remainder of the genre, and one of the principal ones was that the protagonist aims to enter a group, rather than be a lone wanderer. Given who likely reads the books, I don't think this is a coincidence.

the irony, Mencius, is that Lander's ideologically at the opposite pole from Sailer: Sailer's a paleocon, Lander's a liberal spoofing his own tribe.  
 
What is funny is that Sailer is the writer plenty of people read but nobody admits reading. It's sort of as if nobody can explain why the emperor doesn't weigh extra when he puts on his new suit, whereas Sailer can explain these phenomena by simply noting that he has no clothes. So everyone uses Sailer's conclusions about the emperor's weightless suit, but won't mention the guy himself. 
 
Shoot, he's my favorite author on the web, and I still have to look over my shoulder to make sure nobody sees me reading him.

Hey, question for all of you scientists. 
 
I can understand depression--there is a mood-regulating system, and it gets stuck in the 'down' mode, sort of like an inverse hypertension. I can understand ADD--there is some attention-regulating system, and it doesn't work well. I can understand personality disorders like histrionic and narcissistic--you have too much of a good thing. Sociopathy's downright adaptive in the business world if you have a high enough IQ and enough self-control to avoid stealing your boss's pens.  
 
But schizophrenia? What brain system is there that, when it breaks down, causes you to hear voices, stop taking care of yourself, and have flat affect? It must be pretty fragile if there's all these genes that cause it to break down? Does anyone have the neuroscience background to explain this?

What about the increasing masculinity? I wonder if that's a result of feminism or of greater male immaturity... I remember when male nerds used to fantasize about cheerleaders instead of nerd chicks...

Maybe Jewish history selected for neuroticism (Big 5)? It could even be something as recent as the Holocaust. Remember the old Jewish guy in Cabaret who says 'oh, this will pass' as Weimar Germany starts to go bad? Optimistic, and look what happened to him. 
 
Y'know, as soon enough time passes that people don't go nuts over it, it'd be interesting to see the selective effects of the Holocaust. That's one heck of a bottleneck, and we know exactly when it happened and why.

Thanks for reading my mind. You must have all the right polymorphisms. ;) 
 
Seriously, now that we've got this other DNTB1 gene or whatever, might it be worth it? You've got me stumbling all over myself over at Half Sigma, and it would be nice to have people who know what they're talking about look at this...

Hey guys, quick question. Do you have a list of the known genes which affect IQ?

Hmmm...the argument I've read is that nerd peer groups drive off women. Maybe it works both ways?

Maybe this is completely offtopic, but there are lots of dark brown Indians here who are plenty smart.

Blood pressure and cholesterol levels? I don't know about the disadvantages of a very low cholesterol level, but it seems genes that tend to raise your blood pressure are only disadvantageous in modern societies where you don't have to worry about bleeding to death from an injury. Same with obesity and fat-storing genes. Anyone able to comment on this?

Whatever. Dawkins and Co. are right about religion being irrational. But if it's genetically mediated, it's most likely never going away. In my younger years, I read a lot of Isaac Asimov and thought I was smarter than all those silly religious people. Over time I realized religion was too deeply rooted societally to ever disappear and made a lot of people happy. I also realized saying you were an atheist was a Really Bad Thing. So now I just tell people I'm Jewish, which I have the nose for and is technically correct by laws of descent, and it shuts them up. (If I ever move to the South I guess I could claim to be Italian.) Also makes Jewish people more likely to be friendly, which has some small advantage in my chosen field in my region of the country. I suspect the same works for Catholicism or most of the varieties of Protestantism, though in some parts of the country you might have to 'convert'. 
 
Technically I'm an agnostic. Sure there could be a God, but there could be an invisible teacup orbiting the sun on the other side of the earth. Just because there is a God, doesn't mean he behaves the way people think he does. For all we know, God rewards people who behave selfishly. They certainly seem to do well enough in this life! So since God hasn't seen fit to make himself knowable, I sort of ignore him. He might get mad at me after death, but then again he might not care, or it might turn out the true religion is Zoroastrianism and I was going to hell anyway.

Oh come on, their city got wrecked. As a former New Yorker I know Al Qaeda's going to succeed one of these days, so I feel for them. Come on, Manhattan's just such a great target. A small space with so much money, so many people, and so many Jews...

Yes, I think the idea of being eternally with your loved one might appeal to more women. Look at all the vampire romance novels. Vampires were reanimated walking corpses. Not very sexy. But then Hollywood made them attractive, and you have Anne Rice and company.

What makes you think it peaks at 120 and not, say, 110 or 130?